The development of the skull in Acrochor
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Olivier Rieppel; Hussam Zaher
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The skull of __Acrochordus__ has been characterized by the absence of a crista circumfenestralis (a synapomorphy shared by all snakes), and by the absence of a recessus scalae tympani that in other squamates forms by subdivision of the embryonic metotic fissure. These traits have variab