ArticlePeerJ2017
Asymmetry of mandibular dentition is associated with dietary specialization in snail-eating snakes.
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- Population-Level Laterality of Ambush Posture in the Chinese Green Tree Pit Viper (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The Influence of Diet on the Composition and Function of Gut Microbiota in Four Snake Species.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Embryonic development of skull bones in the Sahara horned viper (Cerastes cerastes), with new insights into structures related to the basicranium and braincase roof.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- A revised taxonomy of Asian snail-eating snakesZooKeys · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn vertebrates, the left-and-right pairs of homologous organs are generally present in equal numbers. A remarkable exception is snail-eating snakes in the family Pareidae: almost all the pareid snakes have much more teeth on the right mandible than on the left for functional specialization in feeding on the dextral majority of land snails. Because the only exceptional species with symmetric dentition has been regarded as a slug-eater, the extent of dietary specialization on slugs could shape the degree of the lateral asymmetry of mandibular dentition (dentition asymmetry) even among snail eaters.
methodsTo test this, I compared the morphology and behavior of two sympatric species of Taiwanese snail-eating snakes,
resultsSpecimens collected in the same locality showed that the dentition asymmetry of DISCUSSION: The dietary specialization of
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