Menu:
Eastern Mole
 |
Class: SbCl: InCl: MgOr: Order: Family: Genus: Species: |
Mammalia Theria Eutheria Laurasiatheria Eulipotyphla Talpidae Scalopus S. aquaticus |
|
|
Scalopus aquaticus
other resources: |
|||
|
natural bone skeleton commercial mount
|
|||
 |
 |
||
|
adaptations for fossorial life skull - note elongated snout; generalized dentition; extremely reduced eye sockets
|
adaptations for fossorial life pectoral girdle - note robust anterior limb bones with extensive fossa; elongated scapulae; extremely short, articulated clavicles |
||
Back to top
Rev. 12.11