reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...

s, the frontoparietal scales are

scale Scale or scales may refer to: Mathematics * Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points * Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original * Scale factor, a number ...

s located behind the eyes, between the frontal scales to the front and the

parietal scale Parietal scale refers to the scales of a snake which are on the head of the snake and are connected to the frontals towards the posterior. These scales are analogous to and take their name from the parietal bone which forms the roof and sides of ...

s to the back. Schleich HH, Kästle W, Kabisch K (1996)
''Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa: Biology, Systematics, Field Guide''
Koenigstein, Germany: Koeltz Scientific Books. 630 pp., 63 color plates.

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