| is the karyotype of neotropical boid snakes really conserved? cytotaxonomy, chromosomal rearrangements and karyotype organization in the boidae family. | boids are primitive snakes from a basal lineage that is widely distributed in neotropical region. many of these species are both morphologically and biogeographically divergent, and the relationship among some species remains uncertain even with evolutionary and phylogenetic studies being proposed for the group. for a better understanding of the evolutionary relationship between these snakes, we cytogenetically analysed 7 species and 3 subspecies of neotropical snakes from the boidae family usin ... | 2016 | 27494409 |
| erratum to: predation of a squirrel monkey (saimiri sciureus) by an amazon tree boa (corallus hortulanus): even small boids may be a potential threat to small-bodied platyrrhines. | | 2016 | 27271464 |
| predation of a squirrel monkey (saimiri sciureus) by an amazon tree boa (corallus hortulanus): even small boids may be a potential threat to small-bodied platyrrhines. | predation has been suggested to play a major role in the evolution of primate ecology, although reports of predation events are very rare. mammalian carnivores, raptors, and snakes are known predators of neotropical primates, and most reported attacks by snakes are attributed to boa constrictor (terrestrial boas). here, we document the predation of a squirrel monkey (saimiri sciureus) by an amazon tree boa (corallus hortulanus), the first record of the predation of a platyrrhine primate by this ... | 2016 | 27165689 |
| ultrasound imaging of the anterior section of the eye of five different snake species. | nineteen clinically normal snakes: six ball pythons (python regius), six burmese pythons (python bivittatus), one children's python (antaresia childreni), four amazon tree boas (corallus hortulanus), and two malagasy ground boas (acrantophis madagascariensis) were subjected to ultrasound imaging with 21 mhz (ball python) and 50 mhz (ball python, burmese python, children's python, amazon tree boa, malagasy ground boa) transducers in order to measure the different structures of the anterior segmen ... | 2014 | 25547871 |
| surface structure and frictional properties of the skin of the amazon tree boa corallus hortulanus (squamata, boidae). | the legless locomotion of snakes requires specific adaptations of their ventral scales to maintain friction force in different directions. the skin microornamentation of the snake corallus hortulanus was studied by means of scanning electron microscopy and the friction properties of the skin were tested on substrates of different roughness. skin samples from various parts of the body (dorsal, lateral, ventral) were compared. dorsal and lateral scales showed similar, net-like microornamentation a ... | 2009 | 19137315 |
| [notes on haemogregarins of brazilian serpents. x. new parasitic species of hydrodynastes gigas (d. and b.) and corallus hortulanus (l.)]. | | 1970 | 5497726 |