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Hinged teeth in snakes: an adaptation for swallowing hard-bodied prey.

A H Savitzky.   

Abstract

Six genera of snakes, representing at least three lineages, possess teeth that fold backward against the jaws rather than being firmly ankylosed. This condition, effected by a connective tissue hinge at the base of each tooth, is associated with suites of cephalic modifications that enable the snakes to grasp and to swallow hard-bodied prey.

Year:  1981        PMID： 17792091     DOI： 10.1126/science.212.4492.346

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  4 in total

1.  Mosasaurs and snakes have a periodontal ligament: timing and extent of calcification, not tissue complexity, determines tooth attachment mode in reptiles.

Authors:  Aaron R H LeBlanc; Denis O Lamoureux; Michael W Caldwell
Journal:  J Anat       Date:  2017-09-12       Impact factor: 2.610

2.  Squamate egg tooth development revisited using three-dimensional reconstructions of brown anole (Anolis sagrei, Squamata, Dactyloidae) dentition.

Authors:  Mateusz Hermyt; Katarzyna Janiszewska; Weronika Rupik
Journal:  J Anat       Date:  2020-02-13       Impact factor: 2.921

Review 3.  Current Perspectives on Tooth Implantation, Attachment, and Replacement in Amniota.

Authors:  Thomas J C Bertin; Béatrice Thivichon-Prince; Aaron R H LeBlanc; Michael W Caldwell; Laurent Viriot
Journal:  Front Physiol       Date:  2018-11-21       Impact factor: 4.566

4.  Potential envenomation by the aglyphous pseudoxyrhophiine snake Leioheterodon madagascariensis and description of its dentition.

Authors:  Bertrand Razafimahatratra; Cynthia Wang; Akira Mori; Frank Glaw
Journal:  J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis       Date:  2015-11-20
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