XV. The Croonian lecture.—On the structure and development of the skull in the lacertilia. - Part I.—On the skull of the common lizards (Lacerta agilis, L. viridis, and Zootoca vivipara)
- 31 December 1879
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Vol. 170, 595-640
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1879.0075
Abstract
Whilst the last paper, that on the Skull of the Snake, has been passing through the press, I have been engaged in working out the skull of the Common Lizards; hence the likeness and unlikeness of the two kinds has been clearly before my eyes. I consider these small, modern, old-world “Lacertilia” to be the kinds in which the Lacertian specialization has been carried to its fullest development, and that an exhaustive account of their cranio-facial skeleton, its structure and its growth, may serve as a sort of practical rule or norma by which to measure that which is typical, or aberrant, in the skull of other types of the Lacertilia.Keywords
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