The ecological importance of crocodylians: towards evidence‐based justification for their conservation

R Somaweera, J Nifong, A Rosenblatt… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐bodied predators are well represented among the world's threatened and
endangered species. A significant body of literature shows that in terrestrial and marine …

Insights into the ecology and evolutionary success of crocodilians revealed through bite-force and tooth-pressure experimentation

GM Erickson, PM Gignac, SJ Steppan, AK Lappin… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Crocodilians have dominated predatory niches at the water-land interface for
over 85 million years. Like their ancestors, living species show substantial variation in their …

Suchian feeding success at the interface of ontogeny and macroevolution

P Gignac, H O'Brien - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
There have been a number of attempts to explain how crocodylian bite-force performance
covaries with cranial form and diet. However, the mechanics and morphologies of …

A synthetic approach for assessing the interplay of form and function in the crocodyliform snout

SK Drumheller, EW Wilberg - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Existing classifications of snout shape within Crocodylia are supported by functional studies,
but ecological surveys often reveal a higher than expected diversity of prey items within …

The role of predation in shaping crocodilian natural history

R Somaweera, M Brien… - Herpetological …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
Although adult crocodilians have few predators (mostly humans and other crocodilians),
hatchlings and eggs are killed and consumed by a diverse array of invertebrates, fishes …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative heterodonty in Crocodylia: assessing size and shape across modern and extinct taxa

DC D'Amore, M Harmon, SK Drumheller, JJ Testin - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Heterodonty in Crocodylia and closely related taxa has not been defined quantitatively, as
the teeth rarely have been measured. This has resulted in a range of qualitative descriptors …

Skull ontogeny of extant caimans: a three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach

MVF Blanco, GH Cassini, P Bona - Zoology, 2018 - Elsevier
Ontogenetic variation of cranial characters used in crocodylian phylogenetic systematics has
never been studied. Furthermore, the relationship between diet and skull morphological …

Pelvic musculature and function of Caiman latirostris

A Otero, PA Gallina, Y Herrera - The Herpetological Journal, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
The musculoskeletal hindlimb anatomy of the alligatorid Caiman latirostris Daudin is
presented. The description includes origin and insertion sites as well as anatomical function …

[HTML][HTML] Nocturnal and diurnal activity of armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) associated with wintering Florida manatees (Trichechus …

LG Nico - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2010 - SciELO Brasil
Several Pterygoplichthys species, members of the Neotropical catfish family Loricariidae,
have been widely introduced outside their native ranges. In this paper, I present …

Juvenile notosuchian crocodiles from the La Buitrera Paleontological area with comments on qualitative ontogenetic characters

ML Fernández-Dumont - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Araripesuchus is a genus of medium-sized (approximately 1 m long) terrestrial
uruguaysuchid crocodyliforms that lived during the Cretaceous in Gondwana. There is …