Olive Sea Snake Skull Anatomy

3D Model

Skull of an olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis, with bones colored and labelled to demonstrate skull anatomy.

Scene by Jaimi Gray. 3D model produced from a CT scan of specimen KLS 0564 (specimen from Kate Sanders lab). Segmentation and mesh files generated using Avizo (version 2019.2). Meshes further edited in Blender. Anatomy follows Cundall and Irish (2008) “The Snake Skull” in Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 20, Morphology H (Gans, Gaunt and Adler). Sea snake image by Matt Curnock.

Modelling funded by the oVert TCN project at the University of Florida (NSF DBI-1701714) https://tinyurl.com/oVertwiki.