Cold-blooded Vertebrate Flashcards
(26 cards)
(description)
Classification: Alligatorinae
Lives for 30-50 years
Size and weight: 500 lbs and 11 - 15 ft.
Alligators
A type of egg made by reptiles and birds or egg laying mammals.
Amniotic Eggs
cold blooded vertebrate animal that has frogs, toads, newts, and also salamanders. They have gills when they are young and when they are older they get lungs.
Amphibians
(3 examples)
- lungfish
- Cichlid
- Arowana
Bony Fishes
(description)
worm-like, lives on tropical places, poor eyes, lack of limbs, borrows.
Caecilians
(3 examples)
- stingray
- Holocephali
- Sawfish
Cartilaginous Fishes
(description) Classification: Crocodiles Life: 70 or 70-100 years Weight: 500-22,00 lbs Size: 13-17 ft. Speed: 15-20 mph
Crocodiles
Animal that depends on outside sources for its body heat.
Ectotherms
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Endotherms
(description) Short body, tailless, amphibian Classification: Salientia Size: 2-5.9 in. Life: 10-12 years
Frogs
A organ of a amphibian, it takes oxygen from the water flowing by it.
Gills
(2 examples)
- Heterostraci
- Pteraspidomorphi
Jawless Fishes
(description)
reptiles, lives around the world
Classification: Squamata
LIzards
sense organs system, that are inside water living vertebrates,
What is dose: senses the movement and vibration in the water around animal
Lateral Line
a pair organs that get oxygen to got to the heart and circulates through the body and removes the carbon dioxide
Lungs
its when a insect or amphibian changes in to something over time like caterpillar to butterfly
Metamorphosis
a tetraped animal, it includes turtles and also snakes
Classification: Chordate
Reptiles
(description) lizard like, snout, thin, small right angled limbs, tails. Classification: Amphibians Weight: 55-66 lbs Length: 3.8 ft. or 4.9 - 7.5 in.
Salamanders
(description)
Long, legless, carnivorous, no eyelids, external ears.
Classification: Ophidia
Length: 3.9 in. or/ inbetween 8.2 ft.
Snakes
a organ inside of an organism that is gas-filled, gives control over buoyancy for fish, and to stay afloat without swimming
Swim Bladder
a tailed larva of a amphibian ( example: Frog and salamander) no legs and gills
Tadpole
(description) small, tailless amphibian Classification: Salientia Life: 10-12 years Size: 2-5.9 in.
Toads
(description) land dwelling, shelled. Classification: Testudinoidea Length: 2.4- 3.1 in. Weight: 95 lbs or 3.4 - 5.8 oz
Tortoises
(description)
reptile, resemble lizards, has a name that means peaked back.
Classification: Sphenodontidae
Tuataras