Animal diets crucially affect fitness, yet many aspects of their ultimate determinants are
unknown. The distribution and extent of herbivory in lizards, its evolutionary history, and …

This chapter considers the structure, function, and evolution of the feeding system in
nonophidian lepidosaurs—tuatara, lizards, and amphisbaenians. The latter two groups …

A checklist of the Amphisbaenidae is presented. A total of 190 species are included,
distributed in four families as follows: Amphisbaenidae (178 species in 18 genera) …

Due to their secretive habits, very little is known about the ecology of amphisbaenians.
Based on a large series of specimens from the Cerrado of central Brazil, the diet …

Examination and dissection of 216 museum specimens of two species of amphisbaenians
(the shovel-snouted Monopeltis anchietae and round-headed Zygaspis quadrifrons) from …

Vertebrate endocasts are widely used in the fields of paleoneurology and comparative
neuroanatomy. The validity of endocranial studies is dependent upon the extent to which an …

Nous avons étudié l'écologie de la thermorégulation chez le reptile amphisbène Blanus
cinereus dans le centre de l'Espagne, plus particulièrement la relation entre les conditions …

Limbless animals that burrow head‐first are often considered to be evolutionarily
constrained in the development of a large head, due to limitations imposed while …

Morphological adaptations of amphisbaenians for a fossorial life constrain their ecological
demands in a greater way than for epigeal reptiles. Studies on the diet of amphisbaenians …

Nous avons étudié l'écologie thermique de l'amphisbénien Trogonophis wiegmanni dans
les îles Chafarinas (Afrique du Nord). Notre objectif était d'évaluer l'importance de la …