About Mammals in the Animal Diversity Web
The pages and figures listed here are some of the special aids to learning about mammals provided in the Animal Diversity Web. Others can be found by following links in the accounts of specific orders or families.
Bats ; special figures include:
Cranial Anatomy of the dog
Legs, Feet, and Cursorial Locomotion
- Stance (plantigrade, digitigrade, unguligrade)
- Mesaxonic
- Paraxonic
- Raccoon skeleton
- Protrogomorphous
- sciuromorphous
- hystricomorphous
- myomorphous
- superfical masseter
- lateral masseter
- medial masseter
- Infraorbital foramina and zygomatic plates
- Zygomatic plate
- Sciurognathy vs. hystricognathy
- Structure and placement of individual teeth
- Milk teeth and the replacement of teeth
- Differentiation of teeth in an individual
- The basic structure of cheek teeth
- Chewing
- The diversity of cheek teeth
- Summary figures of dental variation