Wfb 300 Impt. Notes-Final

Front 1

Which order has the most successful amphibians?

Back 1

Anura

Front 2

Which order has the most diverse reproductive modes?

Back 2

Anura

Front 3

Which order has a life cycle of jelly covered eggs, larvae and and adult?

Back 3

Anura

Front 4

Which order has a urostyle and a few trunk vertebrae?

Back 4

Anura

Front 5

Which family has a tail that is unique among the order Anura?

Back 5

Ascaphidae

Front 6

Which family has a spade like tubercle on inner foot in the Anura order?

Back 6

Pelobatidae

Front 7

Which family is nocturnal and fossorial and spends most of the day in a burrow in the Anura order?

Back 7

Pelobatidae

Front 8

Which family can survive >40% water loss through torpor underground in the Anura order?

Back 8

Pelobatidae

Front 9

Which family prefers insects and worms in their diet, lives in sandy lowloand soils and are only seen during breeding in the Anura order?

Back 9

Pelobatidae

Front 10

What is the family and order of toads in general?

Back 10

Anura, Bufonidae

Front 11

Which toad family have entirely absent teeth in the Anura order?

Back 11

Bufonidae

Front 12

Which family has both viviparity and oviparity reproduction in the Anura order?

Back 12

Bufonidae

Front 13

Which family has parotid and cutaenous glands behind the eyes in the Anura order?

Back 13

Bufonidae

Front 14

Which family's warts secrete white toxin that deters predators in the Anura order?

Back 14

Bufonidae

Front 15

What family and order dot he tree frogs belong?

Back 15

Hylidae and Anura

Front 16

What is the family and order of "true frogs"

Back 16

Ranidae in Anura order

Front 17

Which family has claw-shaped terminal phalanges in the Anura order?

Back 17

Hylidae

Front 18

Which family has toe discs and small, long slender legs meant for jumnping,, climbing and walking in the Anura order?

Back 18

Hylidae

Front 19

Which family has some fossorial species, lay eggs in water and breeds in ponds, swamps and ditches in the Anura order?

Back 19

Hylidae

Front 20

Which family absorbs infrared radiation in the Anura order?

Back 20

Hylidae

Front 21

Which family has a habitat of water ponds with emergent vegetation and a diet of arthropods in the Anura order?

Back 21

Hylidae

Front 22

Which family has an extended tadpole stage in the Anura order?

Back 22

Ranidae

Front 23

Which family is voracious carnivorous in the Anura order?

Back 23

Ranidae

Front 24

What is the order for turtles, tortoises and terrapins? and class?

Back 24

Testudines, Class: Reptilia

Front 25

What is the order for lizards and snakes (& amphisbaenids)?

Back 25

Squamata, Reptilia

Front 26

What is the order for alligators, crocodiles and gharials?

Back 26

Crocodylia, Reptilia

Front 27

What is another word for ectothermic?

Back 27

poikilothermic

Front 28

Which vertebrates were the first to completely free of aquatic environment? and how?

Back 28

reptiles; by developing amniotic egg

Front 29

Which order has elephantine feet for terrestrial species, webbed for aquatic and modified flippers for marine species?

Back 29

Testudines

Front 30

Which order lacks teeth and has a keratinous beak instead?

Back 30

Testudines

Front 31

Whcih order has turtle shells?

Back 31

Testudines

Front 32

Which order is among the longest lived vertebrates, oviparous and have a penis?

Back 32

Testudines

Front 33

What is the order and family of snapping turtles?

Back 33

Testudines, Chelydridae

Front 34

What is the order and family of mud and mask turtles?

Back 34

Kinosternidae, Testudines

Front 35

What is the order and family of pond, marsh and box turtles?

Back 35

Emydidae, Testudines

Front 36

Which family of the Testudines order has two pairs of musk glands beneath boarders of carapace?

Back 36

Kinosternidae

Front 37

Which family of the Testudines order are called 'bottom crawlers"?

Back 37

Kinosternidae

Front 38

Which family of the Testudines order includes the smallest turtles?

Back 38

Kinosternidae

Front 39

Which families of the Testudines order are restricted to the Americas?

Back 39

Kinosternidae and Chelydridae

Front 40

Which family of the Testudines order includes cooters, sliders, painted turtles, mop tutles?

Back 40

Emydidae

Front 41

Which family of the Testudines order native only to NA and is strictly terrestrial?

Back 41

Testunidae

Front 42

Which family of the Testudines order has an endangerd tortoise due to fire exclusion and human impact? and what is the tortoise's name?

Back 42

Testudinidae- gopher tortoise

Front 43

What is the familya nd order of tortoises?

Back 43

Testudinidae, Testudines

Front 44

What is the family and order of softshell turtles?

Back 44

Trionychidae, Testudines

Front 45

Which family of the Testudines order has the nickname "animate pancakes"?

Back 45

Trionychidae

Front 46

Which families of the Testudines order have webbed feet for paddles?

Back 46

Trionychidae and Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae

Front 47

What is the family and order of seaturtles?

Back 47

Cheloniidae, Testudines

Front 48

What is the family and order of leatherback sea turtles?

Back 48

Dermochelyidae

Front 49

Which family of the Testudines orderhas a leatherback like carapce?

Back 49

Demochelyidae

Front 50

Which family has Green turtles, loggerheads, Atlantic Hawksbill and Atlantic Ridley turtles in the Testudines order?

Back 50

Cheloniidae