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Comparative Functional Morphology of the Masticatory Apparatus in the Long-snouted Crocodiles by H. Endo; R. Aoki; H. Taru; J. Kimura; M. Sasaki; M. Yamamoto; K. Arishima; Y. Hayashi is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Summary The masticatory muscles and their related structures of the skull were observed in the Indian gavial (__Gavialis gangeticus__), the false gavial (__Tomistoma schlegelii__), and the African slender‐snouted crocodile (__Mecistops cataphractus__) to detail some morphological differences in comparison with the other crocodile species, and to compare and elucidate the functional strategy of themasticatory apparatus in these long‐snouted species. The Musculus pterygoideus posterior was relatively smaller in the three species compared with many short‐snouted crocodiles. It suggests that the masticatory power in fish‐eating long‐snouted species is not so high as in the short‐snouted crocodiles, while the masticatory muscles were morphologically different among the three long‐snouted species as follows. The M. pterygoideus posterior of the false gavial was extended in the lateral side of the lower jaw unlike the Indian gavial. The M. pseudotemporalis and the __Fenestra supratemporalis__ were largely developed in the Indian gavial, however we suggest that the other two species possess the weak bundles in this muscle. The false gavial and the African slender‐snouted crocodile have

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Author

H. Endo; R. Aoki; H. Taru; J. Kimura; M. Sasaki; M. Yamamoto; K. Arishima; Y. Hayashi

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0340-2096)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)