Table 3.

Scheme illustrating the hypotheses regarding the homologies of the forearm and hand muscles of adults of representative amphibian and reptilian taxa, as well as of the mammalian Rattus norvegicus. It should be noted that many of these hypotheses have been previously proposed by the authors of the works that we reviewed to prepare the present paper; that is, the information shown in this table is based on the works of those authors and on our own dissections and comparisons (see text). The nomenclature of the muscles follows that used in the text