Echidnas: International Series of Monographs in Pure and by Mervyn Griffiths,G. A. Kerkut

By Mervyn Griffiths,G. A. Kerkut

Echidnas, quantity 38 provides the clinical class of the mammal echidnas. This booklet describes the features, habit, replica, embryology, anatomy, and body structure of the spiny anteaters, Tachyglossidae.
Organized into eleven chapters, this quantity starts off with an summary of the typical heritage, category, and actual features of echidnas. this article then examines the nutrition consumption and digestion mechanisms of echidnas wherein the ground-up bugs within the buccal hollow space are permeated with saliva secreted via the sublingual, subaxillary, and parotid salivary glands. different chapters describe a variety of phases within the improvement of echidna embryos and pouch younger. This publication discusses in addition the first department of the crucial worried method of echidnas, together with the prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon. the ultimate bankruptcy offers with the same anatomical features that anteaters show, and describes additionally their adjustments within the grinding concepts, forelimb anatomy, and abdominal buildings.
This booklet is a useful source for biologists and zoologists.

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