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pholidosis: an R package to compare biological surface patterns

2025-02-28

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Atop the heads of many lizards and snakes sit complex patterns of flattened scales, differing in their sizes, shapes, colors, textures, and inter-relationships. These patterns of head scalation–called “pholidosis” – are often diagnostic to species or genera and therefore of great importance to reptile taxonomy, yet they have never been investigated in a detailed comparative context. Similar patterns can be seen in...

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Literature Corpus work: 9573e990-3749-5abf-87d6-b9b5bfa14064
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.23.639543

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