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Mammology
Lab Practical One
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
03/01/2012

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Term
Family Ornithorhynchidae
Definition
  • Rubbery bill
  • webbed feet
  • mostly aquatic
  • spurs with poison
  • Australian zone
  • Diet: aquatic invertebrates

 

Term
Family Tachyglossidae
Definition
  • Long rostrum
  • Complete zygomatic arch
  • Barbless spines
  • Scoop-like claws used to burrow and open anthils
  • Australian zone
  • Diet-ants and termites
  • nocternal and terrestrial
Term
Family Didelphidae
Definition
  • polyprotodont
  • incisors 5/4
  • well developed canines
  • didactylous
  • Nearctic and Neotropical zones
  • semi-arboreal, some burrow
  • omnivorous
  • tribosphenic molars
  • prehensile tails
  • opposable thumbs
Term
Didelphis virginiana
Definition
  • North America
  • Scavenger, eats mostly animal matter
Term
Family Microbiotheriidae
Definition
  • Polyprotodont
  • Incisors 5/4
  • Inflated auditory bullae divided into compartments
  • Elongated premaxilla
  • Incisors broad and spatulate, form U-shaped tooth row
  • Didactylous
  • Neotropical zone
  • Eats invertebrates
  • stores fat in its tail
Term
Family Dasyuridae
Definition
  • Polyprotodont
  • Incisors 4/3
  • Well-developed canines
  • Didactylous
  • Australian zone
  • carnivorous
Term
Family Peramelidae
Definition
  • polyprotodont
  • incisors 4/3, tips flattened
  • canines small
  • syndactylous
  • elongated rostrum
  • Australian zone
  • insectivorous
Term
Family Acrobatidae
Definition
  • Australian zone
  • glide
Term
Family Petauridae
Definition
  • bunodont molars that dimish in size posteriorly
  • lower incisors long as molar tooth row
  • honeycomb looking bone of the squamosal
  • Australian zone
  • honeycomb look of the squamosal
Term
Family Pseudocheridae
Definition
  • Slenodont upper molars
  • Long paraoccipital process
  • Australian zone
  • Herbivorous
Term
Family Macropodidae
Definition
  • Large diastema
  • Large massetreric fossa for masseter attachment
  • 3 upper incisors blade like for cutting
  • long, narrow rostrum
  • Australian zone
  • bipedal
  • herbivores
Term
Family Phalangeridae
Definition
  • Enlarged premolar set at an angle to molars
  • Well developed canine
  • Skull flattened in profile
  • Australian zone
  • Herbivores
  • Omnivores
Term
Family Potoroidae
Definition
  • Enlarged premolar-ridge in line with molar row
  • Australian zone
Term
Family Phascolarctidae
Definition
  • Angle of dentary NOT reflected
  • Slenodont molars
  • Australian zone
  • herbivores
  • koalas-eucalyptus
Term
Family Vombatidae
Definition
  • Incisors 1/1
  • large diastema
  • large massetoric fossa
  • australian zone
  • burrowing
  • herbivores
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