What is it about?
A single specimen of Leposternon microcephalum was kept in a glass terrarium filled with semoline, and filmed with a scopy (X-ray) machine.
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Why is it important?
The excavatory movements of spade-snouted amphisbaenians are usually treated as a two-stepped cycle, but the evidence that this excavatory cycle has three steps is given here.
Perspectives
This article also led us to study a rare group of fossorial animals and, finally, to a greater involvement in the research of animals of difficult access in nature. The work continues and today we are involved in the study of the geometric morphometry of the skull of several species of this group of reptiles.
Oscar Rocha-Barbosa
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This page is a summary of: Excavatory Cycle of Leposternon microcephalum Wagler, 1824 (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia), International Journal of Morphology, June 2008, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT),
DOI: 10.4067/s0717-95022008000200027.
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