Developmental anomalies in ‘reptiles’: a scoping review

Developmental anomalies affect all species. However, the amount of data varies greatly among taxa and focuses mainly on domestic or model species, leaving some groups, like “reptiles”, lacking information. To access the accumulated data regarding developmental anomalies in non-avian reptiles, we con...

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Published inZoomorphology Vol. 143; no. 1; pp. 5 - 11
Main Authors Dillenburg, G., Pic-Taylor, A., Klaczko, J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Animal Anatomy
Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Anomalies
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Case studies
Developmental Biology
Environmental studies
Evolutionary Biology
Histology
Life Sciences
Morphology
Ontogeny
Reptiles
Reptiles & amphibians
Review
Reviews
Embryonic
Ontogeny
Review
Congenital malformations
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Summary:Developmental anomalies affect all species. However, the amount of data varies greatly among taxa and focuses mainly on domestic or model species, leaving some groups, like “reptiles”, lacking information. To access the accumulated data regarding developmental anomalies in non-avian reptiles, we conducted a systematic bibliographic review of the available data for the past 60 years (from 1960 to 2019) and classified them accordingly to their research type (Systematic Bibliographic Review, Case Study, Environmental Study, Staging Table/Ontogenetic Study, Molecular Study, Evolutionary Study, Experimental Study), and listed the anomalies there described. We obtained 90 hits, over 50% published in the last decade. The most common study type found was “Case Studies”, followed by “Environmental Studies” and “Systematic Bibliographic Reviews”, and in smaller numbers, “Staging Tables and Ontogenetic Studies”, “Molecular Studies”, “Experimental Studies” and “Evolutionary Studies”. As a result, we found 289 individual records of anomalies across all non-avian reptile groups. From this total, we registered 121 different appropriately named documented anomalies and provided names for 21 anomalies based on their description, thus naming and describing a total of 134 different unique anomalies for reptiles.
ISSN:0720-213X
1432-234X
DOI:10.1007/s00435-023-00621-8