1. Answer: Scutes warrantors xeruses Burrbark granulater nonlustrous apochromatism

2. The common method of identifying an Aldabra tortoise is to look for the presence of the nuchal scute, which is generally present

3. ‘Sturgeon species are noted by a spindle-shaped body with five rows of bony scutes and a long snout with sensory Barbels.’

4. Butterfishes are recognized by their deep body, small eye, silvery, pale or bluish body colour, no keels or scutes near caudal-fin base, and no pelvic fins.

5. Snakes can be marked by clipping certain scales; turtles by notching the shell; lizards by toe clipping; and alligators and crocodiles either by toe clipping or by the removal of scutes (horny plates) from the tail.

6. The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the Culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.