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How Well Do You Know Reptiles?
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1. Bandy bandy and cooter = 'bandicoot'?
3. Deinagkistrodon acutus ?
5. Mosasaurs?
3. Deinagkistrodon acutus ?
5. Mosasaurs?
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Correct for number 3 and number 5!
So you now have 2-5 correct just missing number 1.
A little clue for number 1: the result of combining the two reptiles is still a reptile but it has the name of a mammal at the beginning of its name.
I'm glad we can now include extinct reptiles in questions
So 1 is something like Smith’s Alligator Lizard (I presume Smith was human, and this Mammalian!)
I don't think there was ever a rule against it? (Or apologies if there was!) I think going for a single extinct species would be particularly challenging (compared to a broader extinct taxon).
The mammal is not human, but the name of the mammal does appear at the start of a multi-word common name.
MOG2012
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There was never a rule against this. If you pick a specific species that is extinct, it should either be recently extinct (like the gecko I did in the first post), or very well-known (like megalania)
A clue for the last remaining question: think about how you might combine two reptiles to make another one, in a very literal sense.
Such as alligator + snapping turtle = alligator snapping turtle?
Okay a big clue, I'm looking for a naturally occuring hybrid.
Should I be looking at the common name or the scientific name of a hybrid reptile?
Common name
Redcata?
Nope. The hybrid occurs naturally in the wild where the two parent species have a range overlap. The mammal also appears as the first few letters of the common name.
Leopard Sulcata Tortoise?
Nope, the mammal name 'appears' - it's a mammal name that is not present in the name of either parent species but appears in the common name of the hybrid. I don't think it's an obscure hybrid name either, for example it's the common name used by iNaturalist.
Further clue: it's from North America.
Chihuahuan spotted whiptail?
Nope, still not the one. Clearly this hybrid isn't as well known as I thought.
It's a snake species.
It's a snake species.
Batwings?
Yes! Batwing rattlesnake, hybrid between timber rattlesnake and eastern diamondback rattlesnake batwing rattlesnake (Hybrid Crotalus horridus × Crotalus adamanteus) · iNaturalist
I think you got all 5, Dassie Rat. So it's back over to you.