ARE THE HEAD OF HATCHLING FEMALES AND MALES SIMILAR? A GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRY APPROACH

PAMELA LEIVA; LEONARDO SCARPA; CAROLINA IMHOFF; SIMONCINI MELINA; HERNAN CIOCAN; PATRICIA AMAVET; CARLOS PIÑA

Chetumal

Congreso; Vigesimosexta Reunión del Grupo de Especialistas de Cocodrilos de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (CSG-IUCN); 2022

Studies of crocodilians cephalic region are relevant in fields of ecology, systematics, evolution and conservation. In addition, these studies have the potential to be applied to sexing of individuals, which would allow sexual discrimination of hatching to be as effective as they are for adult crocodiles, and could replace current sexing techniques (surgical examination of gonads and histological cuts).