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Before the 1950s only two major studies of the reptilian cochlea had been reported. They were the now classical works of Retzius (1884) and de Burlet (1934). In these studies some important gross and some microscopic features of a few representative species were described and figured.
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Miller, M.R. (1980). The Reptilian Cochlear Duct. In: Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Comparative Studies of Hearing in Vertebrates. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8074-0_6
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