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Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria I
Taxonomy, Biogeography and Food: Afrotheria, Xenarthra and Euarchontoglires
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Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria I
Taxonomy, Biogeography and Food: Afrotheria, Xenarthra and Euarchontoglires
About this book
This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology deals with the anatomy of the gastrointestinal digestive tract – stomach, small intestine, caecum and colon – in all eutherian orders and suborders. It presents compilations of anatomical studies, as well as an extensive list of references, which makes widely dispersed literature accessible.
Introductory sections to orders and suborders give notice to biology, taxonomy, biogeography and food of the respective taxon.
It is a characteristic of this book that different sections of the post-oesophageal tract are discussed separately from each other. Informations on form and function of organs of digestion in eutherians are discussed under comparative-anatomical aspects. The variability and diversity of anatomical structures represents the basis of functional differentiations.
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Contents of volume I
Preface
IIntroduction
1An appreciation of exemplary investigators – past and present
2Outline of eutherian systematics
2.1Definition and delineation of gut sections
2.2Functional differentiations of gastrointestinal tract sections
2.3General remarks on sections of the gastrointestinal tract
2.4Food index and volume
2.5Food quality eaten by eutherian taxa
IIAfrotheria
Description of the post-oesophageal digestive tract in the eutheria
1Afrosoricida, Tenrecomorpha
1.1Geographical distribution and types of food eaten by species of the four tenrecomorph subfamilies
1.2Remarks on gastric and small intestinal, as well as on colon anatomy in Tenrecomorpha
2Afrosoricida, Chrysochloridea
2.1Type of food eaten by species of the two chrysochlorid subfamilies
2.2Remarks on gastric and small intestinal, as well as on colon anatomy in Chrysochliridae
3Macroscelidea
3.1Type of food eaten by Macroscelidea
3.2Remarks on gastric and small intestinal, as well as colon and caecum anatomy in Macroscelidea
4Tubulidentata
4.1Type of food eaten by Tubulidentata
4.2Remarks on gastric and small intestinal, as well as colon and caecum anatomy in Tubulidentata
5Hyracoidea
5.1Types of food eaten by Hyracoidea
5.2Anatomy of the stomach of Hyracoidea
5.3Functional considerations related to the stomach and other sections of the digestive tract of Hyracoidea
5.4The small intestine, especially the duodenum of Hyracoidea
5.5Colon and caecum of the Hyracoidea
5.6Arterial supply of the caecum and of other parts of the digestive tract in Hyracoidea
5.7Terminology of the digestive tract of Hyracoidea under special consideration of the caecum
5.8Descriptive and functional anatomy of the caecum of Hyracoidea
6Proboscidea
6.1Introductory remarks
6.2Food of elephants
6.3Anatomy of the stomach of the Proboscidea
6.4Functional considerations concerning the stomach of the Proboscidea
6.5Anatomy of the small intestine of Proboscidea
6.6Anatomy of the colon of Proboscidea
6.7Anatomy of the caecum of Proboscidea
6.8Functional...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents of volume I
- Contents of volume II
- I Introduction
- II Afrotheria
- III Xenarthra
- IV Euarchontoglires
- Index