Department of Biological Sciences

Practical session 4: Class Reptilia

KATLEGO RAMAKATA

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Complete the Table to compare and contrast the structure of the current day members of
the class Reptilia under the following orders:

Crocodilia Testudines Tuatara Squamata

Streamlined Dome- Stout, Varied,
Body shape &size , large shaped, medium elongated
varied
Broad, Rounded Triangular Elongated,
Shape of the head elongated , short pointed
Thecodont Acrodont Acrodont Pleurodont
Presence of teeth (acrodontic,
thecodont, pleurodont)
Immovable Immovabl Movable Movable
Eye position, movable/ eyelids, e eyelids eyelids eyelids
Immovable eyelids positioned
on top
External External External External
Nares internal/external
Rough, Smooth, Rough, Smooth,
Skin texture & colour, scales, scaly, dark various granular, various
glands colors olive colors
Four limbs, Four Four | Four
Limbs(joints), no. of digits webbed, 5 limbs, limbs, 5 limbs,
digits stout, 5 digits variable
digits digits
4 3 4 4/3
Heart chambers
Carnivorous Omnivoro Carnivoro Carnivoro
Feeding mode , us, us, us,
piscivorous herbivorou insectivor herbivorou
s ous s,
insectivoro
us
Salt glands, Keen Third eye Forked
Special sensory organs pressure sense of (parietal tongues
receptors in smell eye), for
snout electrorece chemorece
ption ption