Anguidae

Villa, Andrea & Delfino, Massimo, 2019, A comparative atlas of the skull osteology of European lizards (Reptilia: Squamata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187 (3), pp. 828-928 : 863

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Anguidae View in CoL View at ENA ( Fig. 23E View Figure 23 )

This bone is slightly arched, moderately robust and slightly twisted in anguids, with similar-sized dorsal and ventral ends. The epipterygoid of Pseudopus apodus can have a small posterior process and a low posteroventral crest on the posterior surface (see: Klembara et al., 2017).

VOMERS

T h e p a i r e d v o m e r s (F i g. 2 4) a r e l a m i n a r, anteroposteriorly elongated and dorsally concave. They are pointed anteriorly and wider posteriorly.