Common types and specimens, useful with a reading and comprehension text.

1. Reptiles
“Common types and specimens”
•REPTILES
•CROCODILIA
•SPHENODONTIA
•SQUAMATA
•TESTODINE

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REPTILES
Reptiles are animals in the class Reptilia. They
are characterized by:
• Breathing air
• Laying shelled eggs (except for some)
• Skin covered in scales
• “Cold-blooded" metabolism.

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Modern reptiles inhabit every continent with
the exception of Antarctica, and four
living orderS are currently recognized:
• Crocodilia
• Sphenodontia
• Squamata
• Testudines

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CROCODILIA
• Order of large reptiles that appeared about 84
million years ago in the late Cretaceous
Period.

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SPHENODONTIA
• Order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only
one living genus, the tuatara(Sphenodon), and
only two living species.

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SQUAMATA
• largest recent order of reptiles, including
lizardz and snakes. Members of the order are
distinguished by their skins, which bear
horny scales or shields.

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TESTUDINES
• Order characterised by a special bony or
cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs
that acts as a shield.

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REPTILIA
CROCODILIA SPHENODONTIA SQUAMATA TESTUDINES
CROCODILES TUATARAS from LIZARDS TURTLES
New Zeland
GAVIALS SNAKES TORTOISES
CAIMANS

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SPHENODONTIA
CROCODILIA REPTILES SQUAMATA
TESTUDINES

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MADE BY: GRACIELA RAMIREZ ESCAMILLA