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Reptiles and Amphibians Flashcards

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1
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Cheloniidae

A

Sea turtles

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Dermochelyidae

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Leatherback sea turtle

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Carettochelyidae

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Pitted-shelled turtle

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Chelidae

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Snake-necked turtle

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Agamidae

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Dragon lizard

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Gekkonidae

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Geckos

- Immovable clear scale covering eye

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Pygopodidae

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Pygopod / flap-footed lizards

‘Legless lizards’

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Scincidae

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Skinks

- Limbs vary from well developed to absent externally

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Varanidae

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Goannas

- Well developed limbs

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Typhlopidae

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Blind snakes

- Eyes suck below thickened scales

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Pythonidae

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Pythons

- Spur-like vestiges of hindlimbs on either side of vent

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Acrocordidae

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File snakes

  • Aquatic in freshwater or estuaries
  • Non-venomous
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Columbridae

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Columbrid snakes

- Tree snakes

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Elapidae

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Elapid snakes

  • Venomous
  • Large hollow teeth (fangs)
  • Red-bellied, death adder, tiger
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Laticaudidae

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Sea kraits

  • Marine
  • Tail flattened to paddle
  • Dangerously venomous
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Hydrophiidae

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Sea snakes

  • Marine
  • Tail flattened into paddle
  • Viviparous
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Viviparous

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Development of embryo inside body of mother

18
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Ecdysis

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= Shedding

SNAKES & many lizards shed skin as single piece
some LIZARDS shed in patched over long period of time

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Scales

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Snakes, skinks and pygopods = overlap

AUS lizard families = granular and juxtaposed

20
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Spurs

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Used to stroke female vent to stimulate receptivity

21
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Vent

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Opening of the cloaca

22
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Eyelids

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Lower eyelid can be movable or transformed in to clear scale permanently fused closed = brille

23
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Labial pits

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  • Depressions in labial scales

- Thermal/infrared radiation detectors

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Nostrils

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Valvular in diving reptiles

25
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Streptostyly

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Ability of quadrates to swing rostro-caudally on the neurocranial articulation, permitting greater gape - allows palate to be pushed forward

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Metakinesis

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Movement at the parieto-occipital joint between caudal skull roof and neurocranium
LIZARDS

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Mesokinesis

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Movement between rostral and caudal skull at the FRONTOPARIETAL joint in LIZARDS

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Prokinesis

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Movement between the rostral and caudal skull at the FRONTONASAL joint in SNAKES

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Amphikinesis

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Combination of meso- and metakinesis in LIZARDS

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Pelvis

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  • Illium
  • Pubis
  • Ischium
31
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Turtle shell

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  • Upper carapce
  • Lower plastron
  • Joined by Isthmus

VETS2015 Veterinary Conservation Biology (10 decks)

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