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Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia
We report morphometric data for 133 specimens of Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae) collected across its range within Riyadh province of Saudi Arabia. One-way analyses of variance revealed that differences exist in most characters. Snout-vent length and vent-tail length showed slight an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30294210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.12.003 |
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author | Rudayni, Hassan A. Al-Sadoon, Mohammed K. Paray, Bilal A. |
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description | We report morphometric data for 133 specimens of Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae) collected across its range within Riyadh province of Saudi Arabia. One-way analyses of variance revealed that differences exist in most characters. Snout-vent length and vent-tail length showed slight and inconsistent differences among samples. D. zarudnyi is characterized by 164–175 body annuli; 165–178 dorsal annuli; 13–17 caudal annuli with absence of caudal autotomy. In addition, 2–4 lateral annuli; 45–54 mid-body segments; 39–50 posterior segments; 4–5 head’s plates and 4–6 pre-cloacal pores were recorded in both males and females without gender difference. The present study revealed the widespread distribution of this species in the studied region, since land topography in this area is characterized by the absence of any natural barriers which could restrict the spread of this amphisbaenian lizard D. zarudnyi. |
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spelling | pubmed-61694372018-10-05 Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia Rudayni, Hassan A. Al-Sadoon, Mohammed K. Paray, Bilal A. Saudi J Biol Sci Article We report morphometric data for 133 specimens of Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae) collected across its range within Riyadh province of Saudi Arabia. One-way analyses of variance revealed that differences exist in most characters. Snout-vent length and vent-tail length showed slight and inconsistent differences among samples. D. zarudnyi is characterized by 164–175 body annuli; 165–178 dorsal annuli; 13–17 caudal annuli with absence of caudal autotomy. In addition, 2–4 lateral annuli; 45–54 mid-body segments; 39–50 posterior segments; 4–5 head’s plates and 4–6 pre-cloacal pores were recorded in both males and females without gender difference. The present study revealed the widespread distribution of this species in the studied region, since land topography in this area is characterized by the absence of any natural barriers which could restrict the spread of this amphisbaenian lizard D. zarudnyi. Elsevier 2017-05 2016-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6169437/ /pubmed/30294210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.12.003 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rudayni, Hassan A. Al-Sadoon, Mohammed K. Paray, Bilal A. Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title | Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Morphological characteristics of worm lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata: Trogonophidae), in the central region of Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | morphological characteristics of worm lizard, diplometopon zarudnyi (squamata: trogonophidae), in the central region of saudi arabia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30294210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.12.003 |
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