Cranial morphology

[Niels Pedersen]

Im working on an article about the cranial morfology in chameleons and wanted to share a few pictures. The idea is to compare the shape of the parietal bone with each genus.

Archaius tigris

Bradypodion thamnobates

Brookesia perarmata

Calumma brevicorne

Calumma globifer

Chamaeleo senegalensis

Furcifer antimena

Furcifer pardalis

Kinyongia tenuis

Rieppeleon brachyrus

Rieppeleon k. kerstenii

Rhampholeon r. spinosus

Trioceros cristatus

Trioceros jacksonii merumontanus

Trioceros montium

 

[Ulrich]

Very cool. I find the differences in the skull between similar looking ones (from outside) most interesting (e.g. Brookesia and Rieppeleon)

 

[Chris Anderson]

Niels,

The skull of the B. perarmata is very interesting. Not a skull you see very often, thats for sure.

Chris

 

[Niels Pedersen]

Yes the perarmata skull is very interesting. I would love to see the different skulls from the species in the minima complex.

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

Niels

Neat collection Niels. Whe have got a complete skeleton of a male Calumma parsonii here at UC Davis. The specimine here has got extremely long rostral processes.

Jeremy

 

[chameleoman]

cool, no chamaeleo calyptratus?

 

[mstocker]

Neil

Niels,

Very interesting skulls. How are you doing on the paper? I am definitely not even an amateur on Chamaeleo skull morphology, but I wonder if the various shapes of the cranium reflect on various modes of sound perception? Any thoughts?

 

[jack29]

Really interesting skulls! what's the process to obtain them from a dead chameleon body? how you preserve them now?

 

[laurie]

The differences and the similarities are quite interesting. Seeing thr delicate areas makes one wonder if that changes with the amount of calicum in their diet. Cranial morphology is new to me.

 

[ShipYourReptiles]

Wow, that is just incredible.

 

[Zach Valois]

Niels,

fantastic work (and great website!). We commend your level of involvement within our industry and interest.

I am curious on the scope and purpose of this article. Does this paper have a systematic or taxonomic basis, or is this a more simple comparative morphological article geared for non-specialists?

 

[Niels Pedersen]

More pictures addedto the site.
http://kamaeleoner.dk/generelt-om-kamaeleoner/24-morfologi/567-skelettet.html

 

[Zach Valois]

Exceptional work Niels!

 

[kinyonga]

Fantastic! It's amazing how different some of them are! Glad you posted them!

 

[DavidBuchan]

That's some interesting stuff, right there........excellent work

Niels

Neat collection Niels. Whe have got a complete skeleton of a male Calumma parsonii here at UC Davis. The specimine here has got extremely long rostral processes.

Jeremy

Ok, Jeremy....pics or it didn't happen....you must know the rules.....