Previous exams for mammalogy - FINAL

the name monotremata means

one holded opening

a baby echidna uses its _ to get out of the egg

egg tooth

true or false? the platypus has a cleidoic egg?

False

venomous spines in males

ornithorychiade

sperm filiform

all monotremata

epi-pubic bone

all monotremata

gum plates

ornithorynchidae

edentate

all monotremata

found in new guinea

tachyglossidae

a baby echidna is called

puggles

how many genera of metatherians are found in North America?

1

What do we call marsupials that have fused toes?

syndactylous

which of these orders of marsupials is not found in Australia?

didelphimorphia

which is the only aquatic south american marsupial?

yapok

wallaby

macropodidae

four eyed opossum

didelphidae

numbat

myrmecobiidae

marsupial mole

notoryctidae

koala

phascolarctidae

which of these statements is not true about methatherians?

a. lower metabolism rate

b. 70% have a marsupium

c. most have a choriovitelline placenta

d. less behavioral plasticity

e. large palatine vacuities

b. 70% have a marsupium

metatherians, in comparison to eutherarians, have a _ gestation and a _ lactation period.

short, long

extinct

thylacinidae

shrew to dog size

dasyuridae

open-rooted, ever growing teeth

vombatidae

large, sacculated stomach

macropodidae

otter shrew

tenrecidae

golden mole

chrysochloridae

stridulating organ

tenrecidae

cursorial

macroscelididae

tolerates high levels of CO2

chrysochloridae

bask

macroscelididae

endemic to africa

macroscelididae

high blood alcohol

ptilocercidae

absentee parent

ptilocercidae and tupaiidae

glissant

cynocephalidae

what two human disease are armadillos known to also contract?

syphilis and leoprosy

which of the orders is not considered to be a part of paenungulata?

tublidentata

when a male elephant is within his reproductive time of the year, he is said to be in

musth

teeth of species (at least some) within the orders _ and _ are replaced horizontally

*** probo and sirenia

to what family did the steller's sea cow belong?

dugongidae

hyrax latrines are used to urinate and defecate. Indigenous societies used material from hyrax latrines to make dyes. Europeans used material from them to make _.

fixative perfumes

cheek teeth on rock hyrac

hypsodont since they are grazers

cheek teeth on tree/bush hyrax

brachyodont since they are follivores

pangolins

manidae

dentine prisms

tublidentata

monotypic

cyclopedidae and tublidentata

some always have quadruplets or octets

dasypodidae

tongue anchored to pelvis

manidae

all have edendulate dentition

myrmecophagidae, manidae, and cyclopedidae

armadillos are found in

north and south america

pangolins are found in

africa and asia

aardvarks are found in

africa

other than humans, what species of primates engage in sex face to face?

bonoboos

which are not strepsirrhini primate?

aye-aye

tarsier

lemur

bushbaby

tarsier

bushbaby

galagonidae

night monkey/ dourocouli

aotidae

largest family of primates

cercopithecidae

capuchin

cebidae

aye aye

daubentoniidae

mona monkey

cercopithecidae

what term is used to indicate that the two sexes of a species are of different color?

dichromatic

what is the morphologically distinct about the male howler monkey?

large larynx

what family of primates has species with an ischial callousity?

cercopithecidae

to what subfamily do colobus belong?

colobinae

which family of primates has the longest gestation?

hominidae

where are langurs found?

asia only

where are squirrel monkeys found?

new world

Where are bushbaby found?

africa only

where are tarsiers found

asia only

where are spider monkeys found

new world

where are bonoboos found?

africa only

where are non-human great apes found?

old world

where are night monkeys found?

new world

Who is considered the modern "father of mammalogy"

joseph grinnell

When did first mammals appear

200 mya

when did most modern orders arise?

50 mya

when did most modern families arise?

25 mya

marsupials are members of the infraclass _

metatherians

Reptile or mammal: multiple bones in the mandible

reptile

Reptile or mammal: three ossicles in the middle ear

mammals

Reptile or mammal: secondary palate present

mammals

Reptile or mammal: determinate growth

mammals

Largest land area

palearctic

one endemic family (now extinct)

palearctic

_ + _ are called the holarctic.

nearctic and palearctic

most endemic families

neotropic

Name the two endemic families (scientific family name) of mammals in the Nearctic faunal region.

aplodontidae and antilocapridae

lack of _ explains the lac of endemic families of mammals in the palearctic?

isolation

_ is the area (island) responsible for more than half of the Afrotropic region's family diversity.

Madagascar

How many endemic Eutherian mammal families are found in the Australasian fauna region?

0

_ is a term used to explain once widely distributed species that now have population that are geographically isolated from one another.

vicariance

the boundary between the Indo-Malayan and Australasian faunal region is the _.

wallace line

In the diagram above, the white circle and arrow represents the _ of a species from landmass 3 to landmass 1, and then its later extinction.

dispersal

the great american biotic interchange represents what kind of dispersal route?

filter

the island rule predicts that small mammal species on islands will be _ than the same species on the mainland.

larger

the super continent consisting of gondwanaland and laurasia ia called

pangea

which of the following did not act as a refugia during the pleistocene?

a. nunataks

b. tropical forest

c. mountain tops

d. deserts

e. madagascar

deserts

define convergence

** unrelated because of ecological press.

discuss the principle of parsimony

The principle of parsimony is the explanation that has the fewest number of events is the most likely to have happened

which layer of the integument has no blood supply of its own.

epidermis