Structure of the proboscis and rays of the star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 492-501

  Grand, Theodore ^a   Gould, Edwin ^a   Montali, Richard ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Condylura; Electrosensory reception; Functional anatomy; Proboscis and rays; Star nosed mole; Talpidae

Indexed keywords

ANEMONE; CONDYLURA; CONDYLURA CRISTATA; ISOPTERA; MAMMALIA; TALPIDAE; TENRECIDAE; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 0000922442     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382980     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. ALBIGNAC, R. 1973. Mammiferes carnivores. Faune de Madagascar, 36:1-206.
2. ANDRES, K. H., AND M. VON DURING. 1984. The platypus bill. A structural and functional model of a pattern-like arrangement of different cutaneous receptors. Pp. 81-89, in Sensory receptor mechanisms (W. Hamann and A. Iggo, eds.). World Scientific Publishing. Co., Singapore, Thailand, 319 pp.
3. AYERS, H. 1885. Structure and development of nasal rays in Condylura cristata. Biologisches Centralblatt, 4:356-360.
4. BOAS, J., AND S. PAULLI. 1908. Lieber den allgemeinen Plan der Gesichtsmuskulatur der Säugetiere. Anatomischer Anzeiger, 33:497-512.
5. BOEKE, J. 1940. Problems of nervous anatomy. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom, 164 pp.
6. CAMPBELL, B. 1939. The shoulder anatomy of the moles. A study in phylogeny and adaptation. American Journal of Anatomy, 64:1-39.
7. CARPENTER, M. B. 1976. Human neuroanatomy. Seventh ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland, 741 pp.
8. CATANIA, K. C. 1995. Structure and innervation of the sensory organs on the snout of the star-nosed mole. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 351:536-548.
9. CATANIA, K. C., AND J. H. KAAS. 1995. Organization of the somatosensory cortex of the star-nosed mole. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 351:549-567.
10. CATANIA, K. C., R. G. NORTHCUTT, J. H. KAAS, AND P. D. BECK. 1993. Nose stars and brain stripes. Nature, 364:493.
11. CHURCHLAND, P. M. 1996. The engine of reason, the seat of the soul. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, 329 pp.
12. DOBSON, G. E. 1882. A monograph of the Insectivora, systematic and anatomical. Part I. Including the families Erinaceidae, Centetidae, and Solenodontidae. John Van Voorst, London, United Kingdom, 172 pp.
13. DORST, J. 1972. Les Chimiorecepteurs. Pp. 418-504, in Traité de Zoologie (R-P. Grassé, ed.). Masson et Cie, Paris, France, 16(4): 1-1209.
14. DUSENBERY, D. B. 1992. Sensory ecology. How organisms acquire and respond to information. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 558 pp.
15. EIMER, T 1871. Die Schnautze des Maulwurfs als Tastwerkzeug. Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie, 7:181-190.
16. EISENBERG, J. F. 1964. Studies on the behavior of Sorex vagrans. The American Midland Naturalist, 72: 417-425.
17. EISENBERG, J. F., AND E. GOULD. 1970. The tenrecs: a study in mammalian behavior and evolution. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 137 pp.
18. GIACOMETTI, L., AND H. MACHIDA. 1965. The skin of the mole (Scapanus townsendii). Anatomical Record, 153:31-40.
19. GOULD, E. 1978. The behavior of the moonrat, Echinosorex gymnurus (Erinaceidae) and the pentail shrew, Ptilocercus lovai (Tupaiidae) with comments on the behavior of other insectivora. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 48:1-27.
20. GOULD, E., W. MCSHEA, AND T. GRAND. 1993. Function of the star in the star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata. Journal of Mammalogy, 74:108-116.
21. GREGORY, W. K., AND M. HELLMAN. 1939. On the evolution and major classification of the civets (Viverridae) and allied fossil and recent Carnivora: a phylogenetic study of the skull and dentition. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 81:309-392.
22. HALL, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1:1-600.
23. HAMILTON, W. J., JR. 1931. Habits of the star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata. Journal of Mammalogy, 12:345-355.
24. HILDEBRAND, M. 1985. Digging of quadrupeds. Pp. 89-109, in Functional vertebrate morphology (Hildebrand, M., D. M. Bramble, K. F. Liem, and D. B. Wake, eds.). The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 430 pp.
25. JOUFFROY, F.-K., AND R. SABAN. 1971. Musculature Peauciere. Pp. 476-678, in Traitè de Zoologie (P.-P. Grassé, ed.). Masson et Cie, Paris, France, 16(3):1-1209.
26. KUHNE, R., AND B. LEWIS. 1985. External and middle ears. Pp. 227-271, in Form and function in birds. (A. S. King and J. McLelland, eds.). Academic Press, New York, 3:1-322.
27. LECHE, W. 1909. Zur Frage nach dem stammesgeschichtlichen Bedeutung des Milchgebisses bei den Säugetieren. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 28:449-456.
28. MANGER, P. R., AND J. D. PETTIGREW. 1996. Ultrastructure, number, distribution and innervation of electro-receptors and mechanoreceptors in the bill skin of the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 48:27-54.
29. MENZEL, C. R., AND E. W. MENZEL, JR. 1980. Head-cocking and visual exploration in marmosets (Saguinus fuscicollis). Behavior, 75:219-234.
30. OBRIST, M. K., M. B. FENTON, J. L. EGER, AND P. A. SCHLEGEL. 1993. What ears do for bats: a comparative study of pinna sound pressure transformation in Chiroptera. Journal of Experimental Biology, 180: 119-152.
31. PARADISO, J. 1991. Walker's mammals of the world. Fifth ed., The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1629 pp.
32. PETERSEN, K. E., AND T. L. YATES. 1980. Condylura cristata. Mammalian Species, 129:1-4.
33. PURVES, D. 1988. Body and brain. A trophic theory of neural connections. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 231 pp.
34. QUILLIAM, T. A. 1964. Organs of touch and sight in the mole (Talpa europaea). Journal of Physiology (London), 172:12P-13P.
35. REED, C. A. 1951. Locomotion and appendicular anatomy in three Soricoid Insectivores. The American Midland Naturalist, 45(3):513-671.
36. SLONAKER, J. R. 1920. Some morphological changes for adaptation in the mole. Journal of Morphology, 34:335-365.
37. STEGEMANN, J. 1981. Exercise physiology. Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 345 pp.
38. THOMPSON, D. W. 1952. On growth and form. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2:1-1116.
39. VAN VLECK, D. B. 1965. The anatomy of the nasal rays on Condylura cristata. Journal of Mammalogy, 46:248-253.
40. WEBER, M. 1928. Die Säugetiere. Fischer Verlag, Jena, Germany, 2:1-898.
41. YOUNG, J. Z. 1971. The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 690 pp.