BIOL 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corn Snake, Red Rat, Colubridae

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1030
• Professor: Debbie Folkerts

Document Summary

Organism of the day: corny the corn snake. Common name: corn snake, red rat snake, chicken snake, bright red snake. ^^ first part of name is known as genus: always capitalized, always underlined or italicized, plural form is genera. Second part of name is specific epithet: never capitalized, always underlined or italized. Order: squamata: this includes all snakes and lizards, can be divided into suborder called serpentes. ^this suborder is only snakes: super more than one order. **you can tell the difference between snakes and lizards because lizards have eyelids and have holes for ears. Class: reptilia: usually referred to as reptiles. Ectothermic regulation of body temp. is dependent on external heat sources examples of external heat-hot rock or sunlight. Taxon (-a) the named taxonomic unit at any level of the hierarchy. Analogous not same genetically or have same ancestry, but have similar features due to convergent evolution. Example- wings in bats and the fins on penguins.