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Quiz 6 (Reptiles) Flashcards

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1
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Order Chelonia

A

Turtles

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Order Crocodilia(n)

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Crocodiles and Alligators

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Order Squamata

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Snakes and Lizards

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Order Tuatara

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Species Tuatara

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Herpetology

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Study of Reptiles

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Skin Characteristics of Reptiles

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  • dry and scaled
  • made of keratin
  • molts (ecdysis)
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Cycloid Scales

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rounded and flat

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Keeled Scales

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rough and diamond shape

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Granular Scales

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rounded, raised bumps

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Reproduction (Snakes)

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internal copulatory organ (penis)

internal fertilization

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Reptile Reproduction

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Amniotic egg - internal fluid sac (placenta)

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Body Temp of Reptiles

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  • Ectothermic-body heat comes from external source

- Poikilothermic-body temp matches environment temp

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Behavioral Thermoregulation

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they move in our out of the sun at will to heat up or cool off

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Reptile Teeth

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Homodont (same teeth) all serve same purpose of restricting prey

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Order Chelonia (Turtles) Characteristics

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fresh water, marine, and terrestrial
body enclosed in shell (made of bone
herbivores and omnivores
no teeth

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Order Crocodilian (Crocs and Alligators)

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4 Chambered Heart
body adapted to aquatic life
inertial feeding - toss food in air then catch it

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Inertial Feeding

A

toss food in air then catch it

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Order Tuatara

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  • Tuatara Species
  • primitive skull structure, lots of openings
  • looks closer to dinosaur than reptile
  • no copulatory organ
  • lives in New Zealand
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Squamata Characteristics 
Part 1 (Lizards)
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  • eyelid
  • 4 limbs
  • similar scales (back and belly)
  • shed skin right side out
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Squamata Characteristics 
Part 2 (Snakes)
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  • no eyelids or limbs
  • large ventral scutes (belly scales)
  • shed skin inside out (like pulling off a sock)
  • Jacobson’s Organ (cells inside the back of the mouth that transfers from tongue into smell
21
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Types of Snakes:

Constrictors

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  • non venomous no large fangs
  • constrict prey before eating
  • backward facing teeth
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Types of Snakes:

Colubrids

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  • elongated grooved fangs in back of jaw and they are slightly venomous
  • have to chew and get prey in back of mouth to poison
23
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Types of Snakes:

Elapids

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  • venomous

- fixed/un-hinged fangs in front of mouth

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Types of Snakes:

Vipers

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  • venomous
  • hinged fangs that can flip from roof of mouth
  • large pit between eye and nostril (infrared sensor)
  • vertical pupil (cat eye)
25
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Venomous Lizard

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Gila Monster

black brown orange splotchy coloring

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