Functional anatomy of the head region of the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus loxops (Aves, Drepaniidae)

Author:

Richards, Lawrence P.

Title:

Functional anatomy of the head region of the Hawaiian honeycreeper genus loxops (Aves, Drepaniidae)

Year:

1957

Volume:

Ph.D

Subject:

Hawaiian honeycreepers Drepanididae Loxops Birds evolution

Summary:

The author studied the anatomical structures of the head region with the use of the bill and tongue in the feeding of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper (Genus Loxops, Drepaniidae). Included is a description of the methods and materials that were used in this study, the types of food and feeding methods that were used, descriptions of the beaks, cranial features, cranial kinesis, jaw musculature, functional interpretations of the skeletal and muscular mechanism of the jaws, the tongue apparatus, the osteology and musculature of the tongue, feeding adaptations, environmental adaptations and extinction, as well as the evolutionary history of the Genus Loxops.

Collection:

Monographs