Duplicate identity

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As Duplizidentie or Doppelzähnigkeit ownership is of a second incisors in each jaw half designated as among lagomorphs be found. The second tooth is a pin tooth behind the large incisor teeth .

The duplicate identity occurs only in the hare-like and represents the main distinguishing feature compared to the closely related rodents . For this reason, the lagoon animals were kept for a long time as duplicates within the rodents, today they have their own order due to further anatomical features and the very long isolated development of the tribe represent.

literature

  • Wilfried Westheide and Gunde Rieger: Special Zoology. Part 2: vertebrates or skulls . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8274-2220-0 , pp. 534 .