ventrolateral
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Scientists now have concrete evidence that two groups of cells—the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus in the hypothalamus and the parafacial zone in the brain stem—are involved in prompting SWS.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2015
Specimens from Oaxaca and Veracruz characteristically have finer dark reticulations on the flanks enclosing smaller blue spots; in many of these specimens the ventrolateral spots are smallest and are white.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
A narrow, sometimes broken white line is present on the ventrolateral edge of the forearm.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
Nonetheless, the fact remains that all of the species assigned to the genus Ptychohyla have ventrolateral glands in the breeding males; furthermore, ventrolateral glands are unknown in other hylids.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
The ventrolateral glands are less extensive and the chin less spotted than in the holotype.
From Descriptions of Two Species of Frogs, Genus Ptychohyla Studies of American Hylid Frogs, V by William E. Duellman
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