Correlation of the feeding habits, jaw musculature and type of teeth of some South African golden moles
The jaw musculature and its innervation in the Chrysochloridae studied is typicaly mammalian except that the m. temporalis occupies the whole of the orbito-temporal fossa. The antemolar teeth are specialized, while the molars are simple and primitive. Normally the diet of Golden Moles consists of ea...
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Rhodes University
1958
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013385 |