Chief of Spine Surgery and Orthopedic Casualties, Alrazi Hospital; Chairman of Faculty Orthopedics and Post Graduate Training, Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS), Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Canadian Board Certified, P.O. Box 1160, Surra 45712, Kuwait *Corresponding author Abdulrazzaq Alobaid, MD, FRCSC Chief of Spine Surgery and Orthopedic Casualties Alrazi Hospital; Chairman of ...

—Phylogenetic relationships both within and between the scincomorph families Gerrhosauridae and Cordylidae are in need of re-examination. Currently the basal gerrhosaurid is unknown, although Angolosaurus skoogi previously was proposed as the sister taxon to mainland African gerrhosaurids. Many details of the cranial osteology of A. skoogi are also unknown because of the rarity in museum collec...

The tongue-bite apparatus and its associated musculoskeletal elements of the pectoral girdle and neurocranium form the structural basis of raking, a unique prey-processing behaviour in salmonid and osteoglossomorph fishes. Using a quantitative approach, the functional osteology and myology of this system were compared between representatives of each lineage, i.e. the salmonid Salvelinus fontina...

formerly the turkmenian stone loach was the only member of the genus metaschistura based on osteological characters. but recently, it is placed in the genus paraschistura based on mtdna coi data. to provide a detailed description of the osteological characteristics of paraschistura cristata (berg 1898), ten specimens of p. cristata were collected from the hari river basin in iran and their oste...

Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Getreidemarkt 9/163-MC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] ** Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling.4 Medical Department , Heinrich Collin-Strasse 30, A-1140 Vienna, Austria *** Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Mat...