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Re: Precocial young Re: Yabeinosaurus, earliest viviparous squamate
On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:19 PM, David Marjanovic wrote:
>> How much parental care is there with these live birth reptiles?
>
> In squamates? None that I can think of.
I can only think of two: Solomon Islands Skinks and Rhacodactylus
trachyrhynchus, the live-bearing gecko from New Caledonia. Parental care is
uncertain in the latter.
--MH
>
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