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agility Alligator America Amphibia animal Anoura appearance belly beneath Bibron birds bite body bones carapace Chameleon claws coiled colour Colubride compressed covered crawl creature Crocodiles darted Duméril Duméril and Bibron edge eggs extremity eyes Family feet female fishes flattened flesh frequently Frog furnished Geckos genus green habits HAWKSBILL TURTLE head hind hole horny Iguana inches inhabit insects islands larvć length limbs living Lizards lower jaw lungs margin membrane minute motion mouth muscles muzzle neck observes Order palate papillć peculiar plastron plates ponds posterior prey Professor Bell Python reptiles resembling ribs rivers round Saurians scales Scincida seen seized Serpents shell shores side skin skull slender Slow-worm Snake sometimes species specimen spots structure surface swallowed swim tail teeth thick throat tion Toad toes tongue tooth Tortoises Tree-frogs trees tropical Turtle venomous vertebrć Viper Viviparous Lizard whole yellow young zoologists