This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of uniting the two classes in a single group, Sauropsida. The three orders represented in our fauna are well distinguished from each other. A fourth (crocoDilia) is represented by two species Alligator musissippiensis Daudin, and the rare Crocodilus americanus Seba, ) in the lowlands of the South. Orders of Keptilia. a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of uniting the two classes in a single group, Sauropsida. The three orders represented in our fauna are well distinguished from each other. A fourth (crocoDilia) is represented by two species Alligator musissippiensis Daudin, and the rare Crocodilus americanus Seba, ) in the lowlands of the South. Orders of Keptilia. a. Body covered with imbricated scales; vent a cross-slit; bones of skull separate; jaws with teeth; dorsal vertebrae and ribs movable. o. Month very dilatable; bones of mandible (and of head generally) united by ligaments; limbs wanting or represented by short spurs on sides of vent; no shoulder girdle; no eyelids; no tympanum. Ophidia, Xxviii. bb. Mouth not dilatable; bones of mandible united by a bony suture in front; limbs 4 (rarely obsolete); shoulder girdle present; eyelids and tympanum usually evident Lacektjlia, XXIX. an. Body short, depressed, enclosed between two bony or cartilaginous shields (carapace; plaitron), from which the head, limbs, and tail may be protruded; jaws with a horny shield and no teeth; vent roundish or longitudinal, plaited Testddixata, XXX. Order XXVIII. OPHIDIA. (the Serpents.) Reptiles with elongate, terete bodies, obsolete limbs, and with an epidermal covering of imbricated scales, which is shed as a whole and replaced at regular intervals; the mouth very dilatable; the bones of both jaws and of the palato-pterygoid arch freely movable, united by ligaments only. Limbs wanting; the shoulder girdle wanting; the pelvic girdle usually so, rarely rudimentary, and with the hinder limbs represented by small spurs on the sides of the vent; vent a transverse slit; tongue forked, capable of protrusion; no eyelids, nor external ears. Various anatomical characters distinguish the snakes, but the elongated form and absence ..
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