Aquatic feeding in a terrestrial turtle: A functional-morphological study of the feeding apparatus in the Indochinese box turtle Cuora galbinifrons (Testudines, Geoemydidae)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-119

  Natchev, Nikolay ^a   Lemell, Patrick ^a   Heiss, Egon ^a   Beisser, Christian ^a   Weisgram, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cuora galbinifrons; Feeding; Kinematics; Morphology; Turtle

Indexed keywords

CUORA; CUORA GALBINIFRONS; GEOEMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77953326319     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-010-0104-x     Document Type: Article

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