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As the oft-repeated statement (which originated with M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards) that the roofed-in temporal fossa of the Lophiomys finds its parallel in certain reptiles alone reappears in the pages of Messrs. Cassell's excellent “Popular Natural History” (see NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 137), it is high time that it should be modified in accordance with more recent anatomical investigations, which show that two amphibian genera, Pelobates and Calyptocephalus, participate in this singular abnormality.
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STOKOE, P. The Lophiomys. Nature 21, 226 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021226c0
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