Miscelaneous Animals Flashcards
(25 cards)
Flying lemur order
Dermoptera Limbs for volant locomotion For and hind limbs same length Only claws and digits extend beyond membrane 2 vaginal openings
Bats order and suborders
Chiroptera Yinpterochiroptera Yangochiroptera Limbs for flight Calcar present Additional flap of skin in ear Strong shoulder girdle, reduced pelvic girdle Radius longer than humerus
Wahlbergs epauletted fruit bat
Epomophous wahlbergi
Egyptian fruit bat
Rousettus aegyptiacus
Rusty pipistrelle
Pipistrellus rusticus
Schreibers long-fingered bat
Miniopterus schreibersii
Sloths, armadillos, anteaters order
Edentata
Limbs for terrestrial, arboreal, fossorial movement
Separate radius and ulna
Canines and incisors absent
Pangolin order
Pholidota Forefeet have long digging claws with short legs Longer, stouter hind legs Tapered skull No teeth in adults Scales
Pangolin
Manis temminckii
Apes, baboons, monkeys, bushbabies, lemurs
Primates Plantigrade limbs Pentadactyl Thumbs and great toes are opposable Well developed clavicle Arboreal adaptions
Humans
Homo sapiens
Chacma baboon
Papio ursinus
Vervet monkey
Ceropithecus aethiops
Lesser bushbaby
Galago moholi
Dolphins, porpoises, tooth whales, baleen whales, orcasorder and suborders
Cetacea Mysticeti Odontoceti Simplified teeth or absent Limbs for aquatic Reduced nasals Tail flattened with flukes
Baleen whales
-southern right whale
Mysticeti
Eubalaena australis
Baleen dentition
Filter feeders
Toothed whales
Odontoceti
Sperm whale
Physeter macroceohalus
Killer whale
Orcinus orca
Heavisides dolphin
Ceohalorhyncus heavisidii
Common bottle nose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Dugong and manatee order
Sirenia
No hind or forlimbs
No external ears
Forelimbs paddle shaped
Dugong
Dugong dugon
Aardvark order
Tubulidentata Myrmecophageous Heterodont Hind feet pentadactyl No thumb on forefoot extensile tongue
