Reptiles

Reptiles

__Information__ Body Structure Taxonomy Chelonia Crocodilia Squamata
 * Dry skin with scales that protects and water conservation. They have legs under their bodies for full mobility
 * The Jacobsen's Organ are small holes in the roof of a mouth where tongue is inserted to pick up scents.
 * Lungs are used to exchange gas. They have a three-chambered heart. They are endothermic(cold blooded).
 * Internal fertilization but external development in amniotic eggs.
 * Several sacs insdide a hard shell that nourish the embryo until it hatches
 * This is the key to reptile success.
 * Kingdom Animalia
 * Phylum Chordata
 * Subphylum Vertebrata
 * Class Reptilia
 * Orders Chelonia, Crocodilia, Squamata
 * Turtles belong to the Chelonia order. They are protected by a shell. Turtles have no teeth but they have beaks and jaws. Sea turtles have flippers so they can migrate to lay eggs on land. Tortoises live completely on land.
 * Have very powerful jaws and lay eggs in nests on the ground. Crocodiles and Alligators belong to this order. Crocodiles spend most of their time in water and have a very slender snout.
 * Alligators spend more time on land and have a broad snout.
 * Examples of this order are Lizards and Snakes. Monitor Lizard and Komodo Dragon are the largest lizards. Geckos are small, nocturnal and have pads on their feet so they can walk on any surface. Poisonus lizards are the Gila Monster and the Beaded Lizared.
 * Snakes are the most numerous amount of reptiles. They have no limbs but have hinged jaws to swallow prey whole. Examples of Constrictors are Boas, Phytons, Anacondas. The poisonous snakes are rattlesnakes, cobras, vipers with venom thaty could destroy blood cells or the nervous system.

[] The Basilist

An obese granite chuckwalla Lizard

Fat Tailed Lizard



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