BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology: Ectotherms - Herpetology

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BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology Ectotherms -
Herpetology
http//www.amphibian.com.au/
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Nuts and Bolts

• Open with Prayer
• Take attendance
• Course Page (NOT Angel) http//people.nnu.edu/jo
  cossel/BIOL3300/BIOL3300index_2011.htm
• Syllabus
• Calendar
• Grade permission forms

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What is a herp?

• These foul and loathsome animals are abhorrent
  because their cold body, pale color,
  cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce
  aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh
  voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom
  and so their Creator has not exerted His power to
  make many of them.

Carl von Linne. 1758. Systema Naturae
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What is a herp?

• Linneaus was wrong about herpetofauna in more
  ways than one
• How?
• 1)
• 2)
• 3)

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Why are herps important?

• Herpetofauna have important roles in history and
  culture
• ? Come up with a fairy tale, myth, cultural
  function for a herp of your choice
• Herpetofauna have important roles in modern
  science

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Who are they?

• Lissamphibia
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Urodela (Caudata)
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Anura (Salientia)
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Gymnophiona (Apoda)
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Reptilia (Non-Avian Reptiles)
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Testudines (Chelonia)
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Crocodylia
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Rhyncocephalia
• Attributes

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Who are they?

• Squamata (Lepidosauria)
• Attributes

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If so diverse why grouped?

• Which do you prefer?
• Batrachology
• Squamatology
• Testudinology
• Crocodylology