saurophagous (sarofagus)

[NL. sauro phagus, Feeding upon reptiles; reptilivorous. Sal Saurophidiat (sa-rō-fid'i-ä), n. pl. [NL., II. n. A member of the Saurophidia . Saurophidiit (sa-rō-fid'i-i), n. pl. [NL., σαῦρος , a lizard, + όφις , a snake: see Ophidia .] bones, and the articular is connected with the skull by a quadrate bone. The ankle-joint is mediotarsal. The intestine ends in a cloaca. The heart is trilocular or quadrilocular, and some of the blood-corpuscles are red, oval, and nucleated. The aortic arches are usually two or more, but may be reduced to one, dextral. Respiration is never effected by gills. The diaphragm is incomplete, if any. Wolffian bodies are replaced by permanent kidneys. There is no corpus callosum, nor are there any mammary glands. The embryo is amniotic and allantoic; reproduction is oviparous or ovoviviparous. The Sauropsida consist of the two cla es Reptilia and Aves.