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scalation

(skā-lā′shən)
n.
An arrangement of scales, as on a fish or reptile.
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The scalation is accurately portrayed in these and this feature makes the book particularly valuable and unusual in guides of this type.
Snakes of Arabia: a Field Guide to the Snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and its Shores' by Damien Egan
For this reason alone it is difficult to identify any species of Leptotyphlops that were examined during this study based on dorsal scale count, unless differences in head scalation are present.
The status of Mexican and Southwestern United States blind snakes allied with Leptotyphlops dulcis (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)
Our data do not support this possibility; the snakes are very similar in sizes and reproductive output, as well as in a scalation characteristic (subcaudal scale division) that shows strong heritability (Shine et al.
Life history consequences of nest-site variation in tropical pythons (Liasus fuscus)
Numerous morphological characters from the scalation, color pattern, and body dimensions vary substantially among islands and within Tenerife.
The use of DNA divergence to help determine the correlates of evolution of morphological characters
Features of scalation and their counts were examined using a stereo dissecting microscope (Table I).
The Common Bronzeback Tree Snake, Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803): An Addition to the Herpetofauna of Pakistan
The nape would then be referred to as scaled, and the extent of the scalation noted.
Fishes of the Helcogramma steinitzi species group (Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae) from the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species
Recently, we examined several females and additional males revealing variation in scalation within the species, the existence of two female color morphs, and sexual dimorphism in several characters.
Morphological variation in the tropical anole, Anolis casildae (Squamata: Polychrotidae)
The head scalation of Baird's illustrations and USNM 1249 were compared by Gotte (pers.
Neotype and type locality of the western hognose snake, Heterodon nasicus (Serpentes: Colubridae)
Evolution and character congruence in some western Indian Ocean Phelsuma: Numerical analysis of biochemistry, shape and scalation.
Adaptive radiation of day-geckos (Phelsuma) inthe Seychelles archipelago: a phylogenetic analysis
1987: Geographic variation within an island: univariate and multivariate contouring of scalation, size and shape of the lizard Gallotia galloti.
Morphological Variation of the African Green Toad, Bufo boulengeri (Amphibia: Anura) in Tunisia
Comparisons of wild and domesticated common carp: The domesticated common carp underwent internal and physiological changes as well as changes in its external shape, scalation and color.
The oldest domesticated fishes, and the consequences of an epigenetic dichotomy in fish culture
Variation in scalation does not appear to be sexually dimorphic, hence the following data are not sorted by sex.
A new subspecies of the polytypic lizard species Sceloporus undulatus (Sauria: Iguanidae) from northern Mexico
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