Reptiles and Amphibians

Question 1

Cheloniidae

Answer 1

Sea turtles

Question 2

Dermochelyidae

Answer 2

Leatherback sea turtle

Question 3

Carettochelyidae

Answer 3

Pitted-shelled turtle

Question 4

Chelidae

Answer 4

Snake-necked turtle

Question 5

Agamidae

Answer 5

Dragon lizard

Question 6

Gekkonidae

Answer 6

Geckos

- Immovable clear scale covering eye

Question 7

Pygopodidae

Answer 7

Pygopod / flap-footed lizards

‘Legless lizards’

Question 8

Scincidae

Answer 8

Skinks

- Limbs vary from well developed to absent externally

Question 9

Varanidae

Answer 9

Goannas

- Well developed limbs

Question 10

Typhlopidae

Answer 10

Blind snakes

- Eyes suck below thickened scales

Question 11

Pythonidae

Answer 11

Pythons

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

Question 12

Acrocordidae

Answer 12

File snakes

• Aquatic in freshwater or estuaries
• Non-venomous

Question 13

Columbridae

Answer 13

Columbrid snakes

- Tree snakes

Question 14

Elapidae

Answer 14

Elapid snakes

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

Question 15

Laticaudidae

Answer 15

Sea kraits

• Marine
• Tail flattened to paddle
• Dangerously venomous

Question 16

Hydrophiidae

Answer 16

Sea snakes

• Marine
• Tail flattened into paddle
• Viviparous

Question 17

Viviparous

Answer 17

Development of embryo inside body of mother

Question 18

Ecdysis

Answer 18

= Shedding

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

Question 19

Scales

Answer 19

Snakes, skinks and pygopods = overlap

AUS lizard families = granular and juxtaposed

Question 20

Spurs

Answer 20

Used to stroke female vent to stimulate receptivity

Question 21

Vent

Answer 21

Opening of the cloaca

Question 22

Eyelids

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Labial pits

Answer 23

• Depressions in labial scales

- Thermal/infrared radiation detectors

Question 24

Nostrils

Answer 24

Valvular in diving reptiles

Question 25

Streptostyly

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Metakinesis

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Mesokinesis

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Prokinesis

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Amphikinesis

Answer 29

Combination of meso- and metakinesis in LIZARDS

Question 30

Pelvis

Answer 30

- Illium - Pubis - Ischium

Question 31

Turtle shell

Answer 31

- Upper carapce - Lower plastron - Joined by Isthmus