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CROCODILE
  • FRESHIE - a freshwater crocodile
  • SALTIE - saltwater crocodile
  • TIMSAAH – Arabic for alligator
  • WANI - Japanese for crocodile

FROG (Anura)
A frog is any member of a diverse carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians of the order Anura(literally without tail in Ancient Greek). All members of the order Anura are frogs, but only members of the family Bufonidaeare considered "true toads". Anura — and its original spelling Anoures — comes from the Ancient Greek ἀν meaning “without", and οὐρά (ourá), meaning "animal tail". The origins of the word frog are uncertain. The word is first referenced in Old English as frogga, but the usual Old English word for the frog was frosc.
  • CON ẾCH – Vietnamese for frog
  • CORROBOREE FROG, with its striking yellow and black longitudinal markings, is one of the most visually striking frogs in the world. There are only about 50 left in the wild. Scientific name: Pseudophryne corroboree
  • FROCH - German for frog
  • RANA- Latin for frog
  • RANARIAN - relating or resembling frogs
  • SAMMAKKO - frog
  • BUFONOPHOBIA - fear of toads
  • POLLIWOG – tadpole

LIZARD (Lacertilia)
Lizards are a group of squamate reptiles with over 6,000 species. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3 meter long Komodo dragon.

LACERTILIAN - lizards
  • CON THẰN LẰN – Vietnamese for lizard
  • SAURIAN - resembling a lizard
  • BATRACHIAN - salamander
    • HELLBENDER - large aquatic salamander
    • OLM - cave-dwelling salamander
  • CHAMELEONIC - given, like the chameleon, to frequent change
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TURTLES (Testudines)
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines. Turtle may refer to the order as a whole (American English) or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling testudines (British English). Differences exist in usage of the common terms turtle, tortoise, and terrapin. The word chelonian is a catch-all name for any member Chelonia, which includes all turtles. Chelo is Greek for turtles, chelone; the Greek chelys meaning “tortoise" is also used. Testudines is Latin for tortoise, testudo. Terrapin comes from an Algonquian word for turtle.
KILPIKONNA - Finnish for turtle
  • TORTUGA - Spanish for turtle

SNAKE (Serpentes)
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. The English word snake comes from Old English snaca, meaning "to crawl", "to creep", which also gave sneak as well as Sanskrit nāgá "snake". Serpent is from French, ultimately from Indo-European serp- (to creep), which also gave Ancient Greek hérpō meaning “I crawl".

  • OPHIDIAN - a snake
  • ANGUIS – Latin for snake, serpent
  • CROTALOPHORUS - genus of rattlesnakes, having the top of the head covered with nine large symmetrical plates, as in ordinary innocuous colubrine snakes.
  • JIBOYA - boa-constrictor.
  • SNAKELET – a small snake

OTHER:
SCHILDKRÖTE – German for tortoise.
  • TESTUDINAL - resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell

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