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Snakes Flashcards

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Cranial kinesis

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Disarticulating mandible from skull

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Ecdysis

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Shedding of skin/scales

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Undulatory

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The most common form of locomotion, weaving from side to side

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Rectilinear

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Movement in a straight line, almost impossible to detect

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Sidewinding

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Traveling obliquely and not in the direction the head is going

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Gliding locomotion

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Launching from trees and gliding through the air

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Teeth attached on lingual aspect of jaw and continually replaced

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Pleurodont

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Aglyphous

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“not-carved” non-venomous, no fangs

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Opisthoglyphous

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back-fanged and erect (Colubridae)

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Proteroglyphous

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front fanged and erect (Elapidae)

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Solenoglyphous

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front-fanged and folded (Viperidae)

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