- a word derived from squama.
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Squamate superiority: destined for success… or just lucky?
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013
Squamate superiority and the awesome adaptability of the squamate hindlimb and foot and why it rules and why other animals are lame and why they don’t rule the world.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013
Squamate success in the Squamozoic: a noncompetitive ecological model.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013
The lizards shade off so insensibly into the snakes, even the boa preserving rudimentary hind legs, that some naturalists counsel their union into a single class of Squamate, or scaled reptiles.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various