Lingual adaptations of the Tarentola annularis with new insights into its papillary system adaptations: Ultrastructure, histochemistry, and immunohistochemical observations.

Our research aims to conduct a comprehensive ultrastructural, histochemical, and immunohistochemical examination of Tarentola annularis' tongue, utilizing various techniques such as light, scanning electron microscopy, and morphometric analysis. The complex papillary system consisted of four conical subtypes and one filiform type. The apex carried three conical subtypes (elongated, quadrilateral, and round); the midtongue carried two papillary types (quadrilateral conical and rectangular pointed filiform); and the hindtongue carried two conical subtypes (quadrilateral and elongated serrated).

Tongue of the Egyptian Endemic Bridled Skink (; Olivier, 1804): Gross, Electron Microscopy, Histochemistry, and Immunohistochemical Analysis.

The present study used light and scanning electron microscopy to describe the integrative morphological description of the tongue and laryngeal mound of , an endemic lizard of Saharan Africa. Additionally, ultrastructure, histology, histochemistry, and immunohistochemical approaches were used to characterize the lingual apparatus adaptations. In the present study, consisted of a complex lingual papillary system in which the ventral apical surface of the foretongue comprised conical papillae.