Reptile Clades

Question 1

Turtle order

Answer 1

Testudines

Question 2

Croc order

Answer 2

Crocodilia

Question 3

Order of lizard-like with solid bone teeth, rudimentary third eye, no ear openings, and long lives

Answer 3

Rhynchocephalia

Question 4

Diverse order that shares hemipenes, scaly bodies, and diapsid skulls

Answer 4

Squamata

Question 5

Suborder for side-necked turtles

Answer 5

Pleurodira

Question 6

Suborder for hidden-necked turtles

Answer 6

Cryptodira

Question 7

Suborder for worm-lizards that have very simple eyes. Generally legless but specimen has legs

Answer 7

Amphisbaenia

Question 8

Suborder for squamates that have no limbs, no eyelids, reduced left lungs, and elongated trunk

Answer 8

Serpentes

Question 9

Superorder defined by thecodont teeth, antorbital and mandibular fenestra, nest building, and parental care

Answer 9

Archosauria

Question 10

Superorder defined by tail autotomy, transverse cloacal slits, and ecdysis

Answer 10

Lepidosauria

Question 11

Infraorder that includes basal snake families

Answer 11

Scolecophidia

Question 12

Infraorder that includes all other snake families

Answer 12

Alethinophidia

Question 13

Superfamily for most snakes

Answer 13

Colubroidea

Question 14

Subfamily composed of pit vipers (because they have heat sensing pits)

Answer 14

Crotalinae

Question 15

Subfamily composed of stout bodied vipers

Answer 15

Viperinae

Question 16

Lizard infraorder containing Anguidae and Helodermatidae

Answer 16

Anguimorpha

Question 17

Lizard infraorder containing Iguanidae and Chamaeleonidae

Answer 17

Iguania