Amphibians & Reptiles

The study of amphibians and reptiles is called "reptilianism" from the Greek word herpes. There are about 4,600 amphibians and 6,000 reptiles all over the world.

Amphibians consist of three groups of vertebrates, frogs, baboons and marmosets (only found in tropical regions). Amphibians have smooth, unscaled skin that permeates the water. Water can evaporate easily from the skin, and if water is not available, the amphibian will dry and die within a few hours. Therefore, amphibians tend to become active when evaporation is minimized: when night and rain falls

However, this same skin permeability makes it possible for amphibians to obtain moisture from sources other than pools. This means that amphibians can live in a very dry climate like a desert, and when the dry season comes, they simply drill holes in the ground and absorb water from the surrounding soil. Nonetheless, the relationship between amphibian and water still exists: their eggs must be placed underwater to survive.

Reptiles are the world 's first true terrestrial vertebrate. As all reptiles have a scaly skin that can withstand drying and produce a hard egg shell, they are not tied to water like their relatives or amphibians. Because they can live on land, they also have an expanded lung system.

Reptiles include turtles, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, large lizards (only found in New Zealand). Turtles and snakes are the only reptiles in Quebec

The camera, text, or map icon next to the species name indicates a link to that kind of photo, description, or map.

A map showing the distribution of Québec amphibians and reptiles from Quebec's amphibian and reptile atlas, approved by the St. Lawrence Valley Natural History Association (Bider and Matte, 1996)

Atlas data is the result of eight years of data collection including onsite and published documents, unpublished reports, museum databases, all available for the distribution of each amphibious animal and reptiles within the state Collect data. The data on these maps is the result of more than 7,000 distribution records. Still, it is important to remember that the geographic distribution represented by these maps is not a complete image. Several areas of the state are not yet fully inspected. Likewise, we do not pay much attention to common species, so we can not get accurate distribution data.

In order to display the distribution data, Quebec is divided into blocks with latitude 15 ° and latitude 15 °. A blank block means there is no species found there, or no one is found to find the seed. As follows, the sampling cycle will differ if gray shade is different.

There is a big physical difference between reptiles and amphibians. Reptiles have dried scaly skin, but amphibians are moist and sometimes quite viscous. They are cold blooded animals, vertebrates like amphibians. Amphibians are smoother than reptiles. Unlike reptiles, most amphibian skin is not waterproof. Most amphibians have lungs, but they usually breathe through the skin and mouth, but most reptiles do not breathe. Most amphibians have limbs. Limbs and lungs are used to adapt to living on land and to distinguish them from reptiles

For a while, reptiles and amphibians have been zoologically classified as reptiles due to their many similarities. It is speculated that reptiles changed from amphibians about 50 million years ago. Let's first examine the similarity between reptiles and amphibians. Defensive Features: Both reptiles and amphibians use camouflage, biting and bulging to avoid predation. Both lizards (reptiles) and crickets (amphibians) have the ability to automatically disconnect. This is the spontaneous removal of the tail as a defense reaction. General defense is fake, and congenital defenseless animals protect the vivid colors of dangerous animals. For example, a harmless king snake might look like a toxic coral snake

The field of zoology in which amphibians and reptiles are involved is called reptilianism. The study of amphibians is called Butler Collage. Examples of amphibians are frogs, crickets, crickets, crickets and apes. Reptiles include turtles and turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles and crocodiles, sea turtles and lizards