1. BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology: Ectotherms - Herpetology

2. Nuts and Bolts … Open with Prayer Take attendance
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3. 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 Systema Naturae

4. What is a “herp”?
Linneaus was wrong about herpetofauna in more ways than one…
How? 1) 2) 3)

5. 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

6. Who are they?
Lissamphibia…
Attributes:

7. Who are they?
Urodela (Caudata)…
Attributes:

8. Who are they? Anura (Salientia)… Attributes:
© A. Reitsma, Aquarium of the Pacific

9. Who are they?
Gymnophiona (Apoda)…
Attributes:

10. Who are they?
Reptilia (Non-Avian Reptiles)…
Attributes:

11. Who are they?
Testudines (Chelonia)…
Attributes:
Encarta Website

12. Who are they?
Crocodylia…
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13. Who are they?
Rhyncocephalia…
Attributes:
arthursclipart.org

14. Who are they? Squamata (Lepidosauria)… Attributes:

15. If so diverse… why grouped?
Which do you prefer?
Batrachology
Squamatology
Testudinology
Crocodylology