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Collections: Comparative Anatomy

1. Comparative collection of skulls and osseous elements
This collection mainly comprises skulls and osseous elements of mammals, birds and reptiles

2. Photographic slide collection documenting the head anatomy of ruminants
Successive stages of the comparative anatomical dissection of the head of a Saiga antelope (Saiga t. tatarica - Saiginae, Bovidae), focus on salivary glands

 

 Comparative collection of skulls and osseous elements *

(© Roland Frey, Berlin)

This collection mainly comprises skulls and osseous elements of mammals, birds and reptiles

Fig. 1: Skull of a Saiga antelope
(Saiga t. tatarica), frontal aspect

 Fig. 2: Skull of a Mishmi takin
(Budorcas t. taxicolor), frontal aspect
Fig. 3: Skull of a Ruffed lemur (Lemur variegatus), lateral aspect

Fig. 4: Same specimen, incisive-like canine
teeth and grooming-comb provided by the
lower jaw, ventral aspect
Fig. 5: Skeleton of an osprey
(Pandion haliäetus), pivotal toe (IV)

Fig. 6: Skull of a Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus),
lateral aspect with skleral ring of the eye

Fig. 7: Skull of a Long-tailed duck (Clangula hiemalis), lateral aspect

Fig. 8: Same skull, ventral aspect

Fig.9: Skull of an Adelie penguin
(Pygoscelis adeliae), supraorbital grooves
accomodating the salt glands

Fig. 10: Wing skeleton of a Peruvian penguin
(Pygoscelis humboldti)

Fig. 11: Skull of a Jackson's chameleon (Chamaeleo jacksonii)

Fig. 12: Skull of a Red Tegu (Tupinambis rufescens),
lateral aspect

Fig. 13: Skull of a Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

Fig. 14: Skull of a Sulphur-breasted toucan (Ramphastus vitellinus)

Fig. 15: Skull of a Reticulate python (Python reticulatus),
lateral aspect, columella articulates with quadratum

Fig. 16: Same skull, frontal aspect, palatine
and pterygoid bones provided with teeth

Fig. 17: Vestiges of the hind limbs of a male Reticulate
python (Python reticulatus), with horn claws

Fig. 18: Close-up of same specimen, left lateral aspect,
red arrow = last trunk vertebra

Fig. 19: Skull of an Alligator snapping turtle
(Macroclemys temminckii), with the horn sheaths of the
jaw bones, functionally replacing the teeth

Fig. 20: 20 Osseous elements of the plastron of the same
specimen, ventral aspect, above = rostrally

 

 2. Photographic slide collection documenting the head anatomy of ruminants *

Successive stages of the comparative anatomical dissection of the head of a Saiga antelope (Saiga t. tatarica - Saiginae, Bovidae), focus on salivary glands

(© bei Roland Frey, Berlin)

Fig.1: Head of a male Saiga t. tatarica
with horns

 Fig. 2: Same head, closer
Fig. 3: Portions of the cutaneous faciei muscle
 Fig. 4: Parotidoauricularis and zygomatic muscles
Fig. 5: Parotid gland and lymph node
 Fig. 6: Buccal salivary glands
Fig. 7: Mandibular gland and parotid duct
 Fig. 8: Zygomatic gland, bent laterally
Fig. 9: Close-up of zygomatic gland

Fig. 10: Left half of lower jaw removed,
insertions of the pterygoid muscles
Fig. 11: Sublingual salivary glands, stylohyoid

Fig. 12: Musculature of the tongue and of the mouth floor
Fig. 13: Skull and cervical vertebrae I - II
 Fig. 14: Skull with horns

©IZW Berlin

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