Infralingual Plicae: Support for Boulenger's Teiidae (Sauria)
Infralingual Plicae: Support for Boulenger's Teiidae (Sauria)
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舌下皱襞：支持 Boulengers Teiidae (Sauria)
作者：
D. M. Harris
舌下皱褶是舌中干下表面的褶皱，通常被改装成向前方的皮瓣。在有鳞动物中，这些结构只在Teiidae科(Sensu Boulenger，1885年)的蜥蜴中发现，除了大多数Bchia物种外，它们存在于所有微型和大型蜥蜴中。舌骨舌突前段的脱离和舌骨舌突的分离被认为是Boulenger‘s Teiidae的同形突触。这些发现与最近的工作相矛盾，在这项工作中，Boulenger的Teiidae(包括小蜂科)被认为是无法诊断的和多种多样的。小蜂科是单系类群的假设受到了质疑，小蜂科再次被归入蜻蜓科。
Infralingual plicae are folds on the lower surface of the central shaft of the tongue, often modified into anteriorly-directed flaps. Among squamates, these structures have been found only in lizards of the family Teiidae (sensu Boulenger, 1885), and except for most Bachia species, they occur in all microteiids and macroteiids. This and detachment of an anterior segment of the lingual process of the hyoid are identified as synapomorphies of Boulenger's Teiidae. These findings contradict recent work in which Boulenger's Teiidae (including microteiids) was believed to be undiagnosable and polyphyletic. The hypothesis that microteiids are monophyletic is questioned and microteiids are again included in the family Teiidae.