The anatomy and structural connectivity of the abdominal sucker in the tadpoles of Huia cavitympanum, with comparisons to Meristogenys jerboa (Lissamphibia: Anura: Ranidae)

• Main Authors: Gan, Li Lin, Hertwig, S.T., Indraneil, Das, Haas, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Verlag GmbH 2016
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11491/1/LI%20LIN%20GAN.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11491/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955745905&partnerID=40&md5=a9df88c71b7bc3a02b36089ffdf70e15
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The tadpoles of many anuran amphibians inhabit lotic habitats and evolved oral devices to adhere to the substratum. Although published anatomical descriptions of rheophilous tadpoles exist, little is known about the modifications in gastromyzophorous tadpoles that possess abdominal suckers and live...