This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... Afr.: Ch. parsoni Cuv., to two ft., Madagascar; Brookesia Gr., Madagascar; Rhampholeon Gthr., trop. Afr. Order 4. Ophidia. t Elongated Reptiles without limbs, with horny epidermal scales without osteoderms, with moveable quadrate bones, transverse anal opening, and paired copulatory organs. Without ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... Afr.: Ch. parsoni Cuv., to two ft., Madagascar; Brookesia Gr., Madagascar; Rhampholeon Gthr., trop. Afr. Order 4. Ophidia. t Elongated Reptiles without limbs, with horny epidermal scales without osteoderms, with moveable quadrate bones, transverse anal opening, and paired copulatory organs. Without eyelids, tympanic cavity, urinary bladder and sacrum. The rami of the mandible are united at the symphysis by an elastic ligament. Snakes are chiefly characterised by the absence of extremities, and by the distensibility, which is sometimes extraordinary, of the mouth and pharynx. They cannot however be sharply separated from lizards. Formerly the limitations of this class rested entirely upon the absence of limbs, and thus not only were the Gymnophiona among the Amphibia, but also the blind worms and other genera of apodal lizards included in it. Moreover some snakes have traces of posterior limbs which are placed at the root of the tail and carry a conical claw projecting at the sides of the anus. Thilenius, Morphol. Arbeiten, 7, 1897, p. 515; Keller, Arch. Physiol, 61, 1895, p. 123. t J. Muller, "Ueb. eine eigenthiimliche Bewaffnung des Zwischen kiefers der reifen Embryonen der Schlangen u. Eidechsen," Mailer's Arch., 1841 Dumeril et Bibron, "Erpetologie generate," Paris, 1854. A. Gunther, On the geographical distribution of Snakes," Proc. Zool. Soc., 1858. Id. "The Reptiles of British India," London, Ray Society, 1864. G. Jan, "Iconographie generate des Ophidiens," Paris, 1860-82. Lenz, "Schlangenkunde," ed. 2, Gotha, 1870. G. L. Boulenger, "Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum," London, 1893-6. Huxley, Cope, Zittel, Gaiow, op. cit. The skin is scaly, but the scales are...
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