Amphibians and Reptiles

Question 1

class amphibia characteristics

Answer 1

smooth/moist skin, lung/gill/skin respiration, four limbs, three-chambered heart and double circulation, ectothermic (cold-blooded), dioecious (male and female)

Question 2

order gymnophiona

Answer 2

“naked snake”
caecilians

Question 3

order caudata

Answer 3

“having a tail”
salamanders

Question 4

order anura

Answer 4

“without a tail”
frogs and toads

Question 5

class reptilia characteristics

Answer 5

tough/dry/scaly skin for water retention, shelled/amniotic eggs, lungs, three and four-chambered hearts, systemic and pulmonary circulation, ectothermic, behavioral thermoregulation, dioecious (internal fertilization), complex nervous/excretory/skeletal systems

Question 6

order testudines

Answer 6

turtles
carapace: dorsal shell
plastron: ventral shell (concave in males)
temperature-dependent sex determination

Question 7

order squamata

Answer 7

lizards and snakes

Question 8

sub-order sauria

Answer 8

lizards
geckos, iguanas, skinks, chameleons

Question 9

sub-order serpentes

Answer 9

snakes
family viperidae, elapidae, hydrophiidae, colubridae

Question 10

family viperidae

Answer 10

rattlesnakes, copperheads, water moccasins

Question 11

family elapidae

Answer 11

cobra, mamba, coral, krait

Question 12

family hyrophiidae

Answer 12

sea snakes

Question 13

family colubridae

Answer 13

rat snake, boa constrictor

Question 14

order sphenodonta

Answer 14

tuataras
only species is the tuatara in New Zealand

Question 15

order crocodilia

Answer 15

crocodiles and alligators
oviparous, four-chambered heart, advanced social behavior, unchanged for 200 mil yrs