Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated under the tail; placed on the under side of the tail: as, subcaudal chevron-bones; the subcaudal scutes, or urosteges, of a snake.
- Not quite caudal or terminal; situated near the tail or tail-end; subterminal.
- noun That which is subcaudal; specifically, in herpetology, a urostege; one of the special scutes upon the under side of the tail of a serpent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective On the underside of the
tail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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On the other hand, it is very probable that this subcaudal extension of the fins is merely a result of the posterior extension and enlargement of these fins which has taken place in the evolution of the adaptation.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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The subcaudal prolongations of the fins are therefore not necessary to the adhesion, nor to the pumping action, of the muscles and fins, which went on as before.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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The subcaudal fin-flaps are developed in _norvegicus_, most in _punctatus_; each has four rays in _norvegicus_ and _unimaculatus_, six in _punctatus_.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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The subcaudal flaps were perfectly motionless and tightly pressed between the base of the tail and the surface of support, so that any movement of them was impossible.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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Hodgson states that a horribly offensive yellowish-grey fluid exudes from two subcaudal glands.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The pythons closely resemble the true boas, but have the subcaudal plates double; the muzzle is sheathed with plates, and those covering the mouth of the jaws have pits.
Forest & Frontiers 1867
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Wagler has also formed two genera for this single species; and Cuvier formed from a variety of it with subcaudal bands a third genus, under the name of Oplocephalus.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Varied with a few whitish cross bands; last series of scales and beneath whitish ventral shield black in front; subcaudal plates, one-rowed; throat scaly; chin shields two pairs; eyes lateral, pupil round; front pair of frontal plates short; nostrils lateral, in two small shields, loreal shields none; one large anterior, and two moderate posterior ocular shields; lower temporal shield in the labial ones.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Body cylindrical, scales small; ventral shields brown, rounded; tail rather short, tapering; subcaudal plates two, round.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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