User:Aashifa/Zoology museum/Museum specimens/Reptilia

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=General Characteristics of Reptilia=

=Classification of Reptilia=

=A Few Examples=

= 1.Chelone =

Common name-Green turtle.

Distribution-

Habitat-marine.

Food-marine algae.

Identifying characters-


 * Body color-olive or brown with yellowish spots.


 * Body length-85-110 cm.


 * Integument- covered by smooth shell.


 * four pairs of coastal shields on dorsal surface fitting closely.


 * Head-one pair of prefrontal shields covers the head.


 * EyesConsisting of eyelids and nictating membrane.


 * Limbs-wing-like paddles with only one claw.


 * Tail is short.


 * Unhooked jaws are present.

=2.Testudo=

Common name-land tortoise.

Distribution-

Habitat-

Food-worms and insects.

Identifying characters-


 * Body length-30 cm.


 * Carapace-very convex, no nuchal plate.


 * Plastron-concave, central and marginal scales are yellow starred.


 * Feet-phalanges are reduced to two in digits.


 * male is smaller than female.


 * They can live without water for along time.


 * In cold water, it hibernates underground.

=3.Hemidactylus= Common Name-House lizard.

Distribution

Food-insects.

Identifying characters


 * Body length-25 cm.


 * Body color-pale green.


 * Integument-scaly,minute and smooth scales.


 * Eyes-small eyes but eyelids are fused.


 * Ears-like openings whichare vertical.


 * Tongue-short, stcky and slightly notched.


 * Tail-long tail having a great power of regeneration.


 * Digits-smooth surface,clawed and two rows of ridged lamellae which help in movement.


 * several femoral pores are present on the thigh of male.

General characters-


 * amphicelous vertebrae.


 * parietal organs present.


 * oviparous.


 * one supra-temporal arch is present.

=4.Varanus= common name-common Indian monitor.

Distribution-

Habitat-burrows and trees.

Food-reptiles, mammals and dead bodies etc.

Identifying characters-


 * body length-60 cm.


 * Body color-brownish color with darker spots in rows.


 * Integument-skin is covered with scales -dorsal and vetral.


 * Dorsal-very small scales with tubercles and ventral scales are arranged in rows.

=5.Ophiosaurus=

Common name-glass-snake or limblees lizard.

Distribution-

Habitat-burrows and bushy loclities.

Food-snails, mice, insects,worms and small lizaards.

Identifying characters-


 * Body-long, cylindrical and similar to snake.


 * Head-similar to the typical lizard.


 * Eyes-movable eyelids on eyes.


 * Ear-openings represents the ear.


 * Tongue-consist of anterior(thin,extensile and retractile) and posterior(thicker).


 * Integument-covered by scales which is further underlyning by bony pltes.


 * Limbs-reduced to small cloacal spikes(a pair).


 * Tail-long and very brittle.

=6.Draco=

Common name-flying lizard.

Distribution-

Habitat

Food-

Identifying characters-


 * Body-dorso-ventrally compressed.


 * Body length-25 cm.


 * Eyes-very small eyes, but eyelids are complete.



=7.Viper= Common name-daboia.

Distribution-

Habitat-rocky bushy regions.

Identifying characters-


 * Body-elongated.


 * Body color-pale brown but underparts are yellowish white. There are three longitudinal series of black spots.


 * Body length-one and a half of metre.


 * Head-triangular head with imbricate scales on upper surface.


 * Eyes-beuatiful eyes with golden iris and elliptical pupil.


 * Snout-angulate, nasal opening is quite prominent.


 * Scales-scales are arranged in thirty rows.


 * Supra-labials-10-12,4th is the largst.


 * General characters-


 * viviparous.


 * carnivorous.


 * it's venom is haemotoxic.

=8.Elaps=

Common name-coral snake

Distribution-

Habitat-

Food-

Identifying characters-