An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column

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Introduction
Material and methods
- Institutional abbreviations
- Abbreviations on the position of vertebrae in the column
The snake vertebral morphology
- Parts of the vertebral column
- Vertebral structures and characters
- Subcentral structures around the cloacal region
Taxonomy
- Descriptions
Discussion
- Phylogenetic implications
- Number of vertebrae
- Centrum length / width ratio
- Hypapophyses
- Paracotylar foramina
- Parazygosphenal and parazygantral foramina
- Cotyles and condyles
- Depressed vs. vaulted neural arch
- Neural spine
- Prezygapophyseal accessory processes
- Paradiapophyses
- Pterapophyses
- Other features of trunk vertebrae
- Additional apophyses on caudal vertebrae
- Subcentral structures around the cloaca
- Ophidian haemapophyses
- Comparisons and taxonomic implications
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4

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