Jaw muscles of old world squirrels

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-165

  Thorington Jr , Richard W ^a   Darrow, Karolyn ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; SCIURIDAE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TONGUE;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANIMALS; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; SCIURIDAE; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; TONGUE;

ANIMALIA; FUNISCIURUS; MICROSCIURUS FLAVIVENTER; MYOSCIURUS; MYOSCIURUS PUMILIO; PARAXERUS; RATUFA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURILLUS; SCIURUS;

EID: 10544241948     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199611)230:2<145::AID-JMOR3>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Balasubramanian, P. (1995) Some notes on the fruits, seeds and nectar consumed by three striped palm squirrel, Funambulus palmarum, at Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 92:256-258.
2. Ball, S.S., and V.L. Roth (1995) Jaw muscles of New World squirrels. J. Morphol. 224:265-291.
3. Black, C.C. (1963) A review of the North American tertiary Sciuridae. Bull. M.C.Z. 130:113-248.
4. Brandt, J.F. (1855) Beiträge zur nähern Kenntniss der Säugethiere Russland's. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, ser. 6, vol. 9.
5. Bryant, M.D. (1945) Phylogeny of Nearctic Sciuridae. Am. Midland Nat. 33:257-390.
6. Cifelli, R.L., A.K. Ibui, L.L. Jacobs, and R.W. Thorington, Jr. (1986) A giant tree squirrel from the late Miocene of Kenya. J. Mamm. 67:274-283.
7. Emmons, L.H. (1980) Ecology and resource partitioning among nine species of African rain forest squirrels. Ecol. Monogr. 50:31-54.
8. Emry, R., and W.W. Korth (1996) A new genus of squirrel (Sciuridae: Rodentia) from the Chadronian of western North America. J. Vert. Paleo (in press).
9. Emry, R., and R.W. Thorington, Jr. (1982) Descriptive and comparative osteology of the oldest fossil squirrel, Protosciurus (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Smithson. Contrib. Paleobiol. 47:1-35.
10. Herzig-Straschil, B. (1978) On the biology of Xerus inauris (Zimmerman, 1780) (Rodentia, Sciuridae). Z. Saugetierkunde 43:262-278.
11. Herzig-Straschil, B., and A. Herzig (1989) Biology of Xerus princeps (Rodentia, Sciuridae). Madoqua 16:41-46.
12. Hiiemae, K. (1971a) The structure and function of the jaw muscles in the rat (Rattus norvegicus L.). I. Their anatomy and internal architecture. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 50:75-99.
13. Hiiemae, K. (1971b) The structure and function of the jaw muscles in the rat (Rattus norvegicus L.). III. The mechanics of the muscles. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 50:111-132.
14. Hiiemae, K., and A.W. Crompton (1985) Mastication, food transport, and swallowing. In M. Hildebrand, D.M. Bramble, K.F. Liem, and D.B. Wake (eds): Functional Vertebrate Morphology. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, pp. 262-290.
15. Hill, J.E. (1937) Morphology of the pocket gopher, mammalian genus Thomomys. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 42:81-172.
16. Korth, W.W. (1987) Sciurid rodents (Mammalia) from the Chadronian and Orellan (Oligocene) of Nebraska. J. Paleontol. 61:1247-1255.
17. Moore, J.C. (1959) Relationships among living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 118:153-206.
18. Nomina Anatomica (1966) Prepared by the International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee. New York: Excerpta Medica Foundation. 112 pp.
19. O'Shea, T.J. (1991) Xerus rutilus. Mammalian Species. Am. Soc. Mamm. 370:1-5.
20. Parsons, F.G. (1894) On the myology of the sciuromorphine and hystricomorphine rodents. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18:251-297.
21. Payne, J.B. (1980) Competitors. In D.J. Chivers (ed): Malayan Forest Primates. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 261-278.
22. Roth, V.L., and R.W. Thorington, Jr. (1982) Relative brain size among African squirrels. J. Mamm. 63:168-173.
23. Schaller, O. (1992) Illustrated Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature. Germany: Ferdinand Enke Verlag Stuttgart, 614 pp.
24. Simpson, G.G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 85:1-350.
25. Thorington, R.W., Jr., and R.L. Cifelli (1990) The unusual significance of the Giant Squirrels (Ratufa). In J.C. Daniel and J.S. Serrao (eds): Conservation in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects. Proceedings of the Centenary Seminar of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 656 pp.
26. Thorington, R.W., Jr., A.L. Musante, C.G. Anderson, and K. Darrow (1996a) Validity of three genera of flying squirrels: Eoglaucomys. Glaucomys, and Hylopetes. J. Mamm. 77:69-83.
27. Thorington, R.W., Jr., A.L. Musante, and C.G. Anderson (1996b) Arboreality in tree squirrels (Sciuridae). In M.A. Steele, J.F. Merrit, and D.A. Zegers (eds): Ecology of Tree Squirrels. Special Publication, Carnegie Museum of Natural History (in press).
28. Toldt, C. (1905) Der Winkelforsatz des Unterkiefers beim Menschen und bei den Säugetieren und die Beziehungen der Kaumuskeln zu Demselben, II Teil. Sitz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math. Naturwiss. Kl. 114:315-476.
29. Tullberg, T. (1899) Ueber das System der Nagethiere: eine phylogenetische studie. Uppsala: Akad. Buchdruckerei. v + 514 pp., 57 pls.
30. Turnbull, W.D. (1970) Mammalian masticatory apparatus. Fieldiana Geol. 18:149-356.
31. Vianey-Liaud, M. (1974) Palaeosciurus goti nov. sp., Écureuil terrestre de L'Oligocène moyen du quercy. Données nouvelles sur l'apparition des sciuridés en Europe. Ann. Paléontol. (Vertebr.) 60:103-122.
32. Weijs, W.A., and R. Dantuma (1975) Electromyography and mechanics of mastication in the albino rat. J. Morphol. 146:1-34.