BIO 370 — Vertebrate Zoology
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Vertebrate Anatomy
Snake Skulls
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Identify the the type of fangs and the structures below for each of the following snake skulls:

Burmese Python (Python molurus)
Elapid skull plain

Colubrid Snake (possibly Nerodia sp.)
Colubrid skull plain

Elapid Snake (possibly Bungarus sp.)
Elapid skull plain

King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Cobra skull plain

Rattlesnake (Crotalus sp.)
Rattlesnake skull plain
  • Compound (Angular, Articular and others)
  • Dentary
  • Ectopterygoid
  • Fang
  • Frontal
  • Maxilla
  • Nasal
  • Parietal
  • Prefrontal
  • Premaxilla
  • Pterygoid
  • Quadrate
  • Stapes
  • Supraoccipital
  • Supratemporal

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