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Lizards Flashcards

1
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Order and Class

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Squamata: order Reptilia: class

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Categories

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• Origin
• Habitat
• Size
• Temperature
• Nutrition (Omnivores/Herbivores/Carnivores) • Reproduction
• Handling concerns

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Integumentary

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Overlapping scales —impermeable
Ecdysis
- influenced by age, growth, raw, temp, humidity,nutrition

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Causes of Dysecdysis

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Low humidity
• Poor nutrition
• Health abnormalities

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5
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Chromatophores includes what species

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Chameleons and Anoles

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Chromatophores color change

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• Light
• Heat
• Social factors

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7
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Gecko autonomy

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• Defense response to predator
•Tail or entire skin shed leads to
• Scars
• Secondary bacterial or fungal infections
• Regenerate

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Chameleons toes

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Dactyl (5 toes are fused into a group of 2 or 3)

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9
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Basilisks toes

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Fringed
• Large hind feet
• Walk on water and shifting sand

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Gecko toes

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Sticky Setae
• Bristle-like structures • Adhere to surfaces

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Claws have

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Blood vessels and nerves

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12
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Ancrodont

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Bearded Dragons & Chameleons) • Not replaced when lost

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13
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Pleurodont

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Iguanas & Monitors) • Replaced throughout life

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14
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Quadruped

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Walk on four legs -most common
Skull
Vertebral column
Ribs
Pelvic and pectoral girdles

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15
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Apodal

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California legless lizard
No feet

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Bipedal

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• Hindlimb power
• Frilled Dragons, Basilisks

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Heart

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3 chamber
2atrium ,1 ventricle

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18
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Vessels

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• Ventral Abdominal Vein
• Hepatic Vein
• Caudal Vein

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19
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Caudal vein location and purpose

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• Blood collection
• Ventral midline

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20
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Respiratory parts

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• External nares
• Internal nares
• Glottis
• Trachea
Lungs
No diaphragm

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21
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Lungs

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• Cranial (more vascular/respiratory function)
• Caudal (sac-like/extend to pelvis)

22
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Instead of a diaphragm

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Intercostal muscles

23
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Oral cavity purpose

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• Lubrication of food for swallowing • Poisonous

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Tongue purpose

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• Sensory
• Prehension
• Swallowing

25
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Cloaca

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Digestive & genitourinary tracts

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Pleuroperitoneum

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Celom
Pleuro- lungs
All together

27
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Renal portal system

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Allows blood to flow directly from the caudal portion of body to kidneys prior to returning to the heart

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Female reproductive system

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• Oviducts (no uterus)
• Ovoviviparous (eggs hatched within the body) • Viviparous (Live young)

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Male reproductive system

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Paired hemipenes

30
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Gendering

A

Size, color, anatomy, probing

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Eyes

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Movable eyelids & nictitating membrane
Spectacle
Parietal eye

32
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Parietal eye

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third eye/Photoreceptor for hormonal production & thermoregulation

33
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Ears

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Tympanic membrane (clear or covered with scales)

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Vomeronasal organ (Jacobson’s organ)

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Dorsal oral cavity (Tongue/Tract prey, mates, enemies, pheromones)

35
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Most problems are due to

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Improper husbandry

36
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Amino

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Nephron toxic

37
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Husbandry factors

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Native habitat
Anatomy &Physiology
Diet
Behavior
Lighting for vitamin D /Ca+

38
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Causes of most disorders

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require correction of improper
husbandry and supportive care

39
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POTZ

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preferred optimal temperature zone

40
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Common disorders

A

Require meds
Proper humidity
Caloric intake

41
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Common integumentary disorders

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• Rostral abrasions
• Bite wounds from cage mates
• Thermal burns
• Skin autonomy
• Bacterial or fungal infections
• Dysecdysis (clinical sign/ can cause necrosis) • Non-autonomy tail amputation
• Ticks and mites

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Skeletal disorders

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• Metabolic bone disease (MBD)

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• Metabolic bone disease (MBD)

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• Ca+ deficiency (bone resorption of bone)
• Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) deficiency
• Excess Phosphorous (hyperparathyroidism depleting Ca stores in bone)

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Common respiratory disorder

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• Pneumonia
• Bacterial, fungal, parasitic
• Signs: dyspnea, neck extension, crackles, mucoid secretions • ABX treatment, emergency, prolonged treatment

45
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Common urine disorder

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Renal failure
Pyelonephritis or neoplasia

46
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Renal failure

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• Secondary to improper nutrition • Aminoglycoside toxicity

47
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Digestive disorders

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• Anorexia is the #1 common complaint for digestive disorders • Infectious stomatitis
• Obstruction or impaction
• Intestinal parasites
• Cloacal prolapse (

48
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Cloaca prolapse may be

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Digestive
Reproductive
Urinary

49
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Neurological disorder

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• Hypocalcemia: tremors, muscle fasciculations
• Trauma

50
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Reproduction disorders

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• Dystocia (pre or post-ovulation/follicles) • Cloacal prolapse of oviducts
• Ectopic eggs or neoplasia
• Paraphimosis

51
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Ophthalmic

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• Periocular inflammatory disease/bacterial
• Hypovitaminosis A
• Spectacle abscesses or retained
• Trauma or FB

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