Whilst fishing, you catch an animal with a long, cylindrical body. You take it back to the lab for dissection and find that it has no vertebral column but a partial cranium. The animal also appears to have no stomach. What do you think this animal will be?   A. eel   B. sea snake   C. hagfish   D. catfish

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Problem 17RQ: Squamata includes _____. a. crocodiles and alligators b. turtles c. tuataras d. lizards and snakes
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Whilst fishing, you catch an animal with a long, cylindrical body. You take it back to the lab for dissection and find that it has no vertebral column but a partial cranium. The animal also appears to have no stomach. What do you think this animal will be?

  A.

eel

  B.

sea snake

  C.

hagfish

  D.

catfish

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