Snake Scales - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Richard S. Funk, James E. Bogan Jr., in Mader's Reptile and Amphibian Medicine and Surgery (Third Edition), 2019 Integument. Snake scales are essentially made of folds of the epidermis and dermis, but the scales themselves are epidermal in origin. Except for the head, they typically overlap each other. A variety of pits, ridges, keels, and tubercles, mostly of unknown function, are present on ...
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