Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Crocodilians Gavialis Tomistoma Asia Malay Archipelago Taxonomy of the family Gavialidae Biodiversity of the family Gavialidae Bibliography of the family Gavialidae (Gharials) (Reptilia: Crocodylia) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Buffetaut, E. 1978. Sur l'histoire phylogenetique et biogeographique des Gavialidae (Crocodylia, Eusuchia). Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences Serie D Sciences Naturelles 287(10): 911-914. Buffetaut, E. 1985. The place of Gavialis and Tomistoma in eusuchian evolution: a reconciliation of palaeontological and biochemical data. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 12: 707-716. Densmore, L.D.; Dessauer, H.C. 1984. Low levels of protein divergence detected between Gavialis and Tomistoma: evidence for crocodilian monophyly? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B Comparative Biochemistry 77(4): 715-720. Iordansky, N.N. 1967. Peculiarities of the crocodylian skull related to the feeding function and the origin of Gavialidae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 46: 567-575. Kalin, J. 1931. Über die Stellung der Gavialiden im System der Crocodilia. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 38: 379-388. Piras, P.; Colangelo, P.; Adams, D.C.; Buscalioni, A.; Cubo, J.; Kotsakis, T.; Meloro, C.; Raia, P. 2010. The Gavialis-Tomistoma debate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships. Evolution & Development 12(6): 568-579.