Includes Rhynchocephalia, Squamata (Lizards Amphisbaenia Snakes) ... Thus, 'lizards' are paraphyletic ... Relatively small lizards. Often nocturnal and secretive ...
... further reduction of the jugal in Archosauria (crocs and birds) and Lepidosauria results in a single temporal opening. (A fourth pattern, euryapsid, ...
They are names that are used for convenience in discussing vertebrate evolution. ... Salientia (Anura) 'Frogs' Urodela (Caudata) 'Salamanders' Tetrapoda: Amniota ...
... have fleshy blob tongues that apprehend food, are typically territorial and ... have specialized chemosensory tongues, apprehend food with their jaws, are ...
Title: Introducci n a la Zoolog a de Vertebrados Author: 05248 Last modified by: 05248 Created Date: 3/20/2004 12:09:00 AM Document presentation format
... live in trees Africa and Madagascar Catch insects with tongue Komodo Dragon Attack and eat humans 10 feet long 300 pounds Indonesia Snakes Elongated derivative ...
Vertebrate Biology Lecture Notes The Phylum Chordata Vertebrates belong to the Phylum Chordata - these are animals that, at one stage or another of their life ...
... infernalis (Big Bend National Park, Texas, photo:H.W.Greene) ... Longhorns (Bos taurinus, Wichita Mountains, OK; photos:H.W.Greene) What is a mammal? ...
Algunos con paladar secundario que separa el sistema respiratorio del digestivo ... Estructura interna de un cocodrilo macho. Crocodylus niloticus. Alligator ...
... Temnospondys Amniotes Amphibian +incl Rep Ancestors Modern Mammals and Kin Turtles and Anapsids Birds and Dinos and Crocs Tuatara What is a Reptile ...
... into the Archosauromorpha (Crocs, birds, pterosaurs, and ... differently than crocs. move nares to top of skull. Saurischia. Palaeopoda (4-legged gait) ...