Wednesday, March 17, 2010

CROCODILE

crocodile
phylum-chordata.
sub-phylum-Gnathostomata.
Supper-class-Tetrapoda.
class-Reptilia.
1.Teeth arranged in distict sockets of a single row.
2.Depressed elongared body with a solid shield on the back .
3.Tail compressed laterally provided with crests longer than the trunk.
4.snout more than twice as long as broad at the base more or less triangular in apprarance.
5.Dorsal osteoderms are present.
6.carnivorous "crocodiles" it is said those which have never acquired a taste for it .
7.Timid animal in summer when tanks and marshes dry up.

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