Quiz 3 Squamate ecomorphs

Question 17

List the different Squamate ecomorphs.

Answer 17

Question 18

Name the ecomorph:

terminal or near-terminal tails, countersunk lower jaws, reduced eyes, unexposed tympana (=“earless”), & short, heavily ossified skulls

Answer 18

Fossorial

Question 19

Name the ecomorph:

very long tails without skull modifications for burrowing (or other associated losses like eyes and tympana)

Answer 19

Grass-swimmers

Question 20

Name the ecomorph:

may have claws, subdigital lamellae with microscopic setae (or toepads), zygodactyl feet, prehisile tail, or extra flaps of skin, fully webbed digits, or specialized patagia.

Answer 20

Arboreal

Question 21

Name the ecomorph:

large boulder dweller, dorsoventrally flattened bodies, long, slayed limbs, may have be able to inflate body with air to wedge into crevices, some have very spiny tails.

Answer 21

Saxicolous

Question 22

Name the ecomorph:

Toe fringes on subdigital lamellae, dorsoventrally compressed bodies, coloration that is cryptic on sand, smooth, shiny ventrals, countersunk lower jaw or blunt head, often with unexposed tympana.

Answer 22

Arenicolous

Question 23

Name the ecomorph:

Long, laterally compressed tai; Often with pair of dorsolateral crests (like crocodilians); Often with transparent lower eyelid; Some with fringes on toes that allow them to run on waterʼs surface; Tubericulateor “pebbly” scales

Answer 23

Aquatic ecomorph

Question 24

Name the ecomorph:

May have long powerful hind limbs, long tail (often run bipedally at top speed) or have tank- like body, short snout, thorny scales, cryptic coloration

Answer 24

Terrestrial ecomorph