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This specimen was a captive. 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. Doug Price, a private breeder. 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.

Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 2 March 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 720 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.115 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.115 mm and a field of reconstruction of 50 mm.

Literature

Beaman, K. R., Beck, D. D., and B. M. McGurty. 2006. The beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) and gila monster (Heloderma suspectum): a bibliography of the family Helodermatidae. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service 136:1-66.

Links

Heloderma horridum page on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Tails of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards by Robert Applegate

H. horridum page by Stephen Angeli

Helodermatidae page on the EMBL Reptile Database

Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the osteoderms, scleral ossicles, hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are 2mb or less.

Skull yaw movie	Skull pitch movie	Skull roll movie
Mandible yaw movie	Mandible pitch movie	Mandible roll movie