examples of reptiles [3]

Reptiles: cold-blooded vertebrates covered in scales (about 6,000 species) having limbs that are sometimes atrophied or absent.

boa

Medium-sized nonvenomous snake found in hot regions of the Americas; it lives mainly in trees or in the water and kills its prey by strangulation.

monitor lizard

Large diurnal carnivorous lizard with an elongated head found in hot regions of Africa, Asia and Australia; there are land and aquatic species.

iguana

Giant lizard found in tropical regions of the Americas and the Pacific islands and having a spiny dorsal crest; it lives mainly in trees.