Xenochrophis piscator, Checkered Keelback Snake
Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 179132)
Publication Date: 16 Aug 2010
This specimen was collected from Chiang Mai, Thailand by E. H. Taylor. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin and Mr. Alan Resetar of the Field Museum. Funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life grant (EF-0334961), The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny using Genomic and Morphological Approaches, to Drs. Jacques Gauthier of Yale University, Maureen Kearney of the Field Museum, Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin, Tod Reeder of San Diego State University, Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum, Jack Sites of Brigham Young University, and John Wiens of SUNY Stonybrook.
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 4 October 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 690 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.053 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.053 mm and a field of reconstruction of 23 mm.
Xenochrophis piscator page on Wikipedia
Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated right mandible. All are less than 2mb.
To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project, 2010, "Xenochrophis piscator" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed January 16, 2021 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Xenochrophis_piscator/.