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Taxonomy of Class Reptilia
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| Subclass Anapsida (Note 1) | |||||
| Order Testudines (turtles) | |||||
| Suborder Cryptodira | |||||
| Superfamily Testudinoidea | |||||
| Family Chelydridae (Snapping Turtles) | |||||
| Family Emydidae (Pond Turtles/Box and Water Turtles) | |||||
| Family Testudinidae (Tortoises) | |||||
| Superfamily Trionychoidea | |||||
| Family Dermatemydidae (River Turtles) | |||||
| Family Kinosternidae (Mud and Musk Turtles) | |||||
| Family Carettochelyidae (Pig-nose Turtles) | |||||
| Family Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles) | |||||
| Superfamily Chelonioidea | |||||
| Family Cheloniidae (Sea Turtles) | |||||
| Family Dermochelyidae (Leatherback Turtles) | |||||
| Suborder Pleurodira | |||||
| Family Pelomedusidae (Afro-American Sideneck Turtles) | |||||
| Family Chelidae (Austro-American Sideneck Turtles) | |||||
| Subclass Lepidosauria | |||||
| Order Rhynchocephalia | |||||
| Suborder Sphenodontida | |||||
| Family Sphenodontidae (Tuataras) | |||||
| Order Squamata ("scaled reptiles") | |||||
| Suborder Sauria (lizards) | |||||
| Infraorder Iguania | |||||
| Family Agamidae (Agamas) | |||||
| Family Chamaeleonidae (Chameleons) | |||||
| Family Iguanidae (Iguanas and Spinytail Iguanas) (Note 2) | |||||
| Subfamily Corytophaninae (Casquehead Lizards) | |||||
| Subfamily Crotaphytinae (Collared and Leopard Lizards) | |||||
| Subfamily Hoplocercinae | |||||
| Subfamily Iguaninae (Iguanas and Spinytail Iguanas) | |||||
| Subfamily Oplurinae (Madagascar iguanids) | |||||
| Subfamily Phrynosomatinae (Earless, Spiny, Tree, Side-blotched and Horned Lizards) | |||||
| Subfamily Polychrotinae (Anoles) | |||||
| Subfamily Tropidurinae (Neotropical Ground Lizards) | |||||
| Infraorder Gekkota | |||||
| Family Gekkonidae (Geckoes) | |||||
| Family Pygopodidae (Legless Lizards) | |||||
| Family Dibamidae (Blind Lizards) | |||||
| Infraorder Scincomorpha | |||||
| Family Cordylidae (Spinytail Lizards) | |||||
| Family Gerrhosauridae | |||||
| Family Gymnophthalmidae (Spectacled Lizards) | |||||
| Family Teiidae (Whiptails and Tegus) | |||||
| Family Lacertidae (Wall Lizards) | |||||
| Family Scincidae (Skinks) | |||||
| Family Xantusiidae (Night Lizards) | |||||
| Infraorder Diploglossa | |||||
| Family Anguidae (Glass Lizards and Alligator Lizards; Lateral Fold Lizards) | |||||
| Family Anniellidae (American Legless lizards) | |||||
| Family Xenosauridae (Knob-scaled Lizards) | |||||
| Infraorder Platynota (Varanoidea) | |||||
| Family Helodermatidae (Gila Monsters) | |||||
| Family Lanthanotidae (Earless Monitor lizards) | |||||
| Family Varanidae (Monitor Lizards) | |||||
| Suborder Serpentes (snakes) | |||||
| Superfamily Typhlopoidea (Scolecophidia) | |||||
| Family Anomalepidae (Dawn Blind Snakes) | |||||
| Family Typhlopidae (Blind Snakes) | |||||
| Family Leptotyphlopidae/Glauconiidae (Slender Blind Snakes) | |||||
| Superfamily Henophidia (Boidea) | |||||
| Family Aniliidae/Ilysiidae (Pipe Snakes) | |||||
| Family Anomochilidae (Dwarf Pipe Snakes) | |||||
| Family Boidae (Boas and Pythons) | |||||
| Family Bolyeridae (Round Island Boas) | |||||
| Family Cylindrophiidae (Asian Pipe Snakes) | |||||
| Family Loxocemidae (Mexican Burrowing Pythons) | |||||
| Family Tropidophiidae (Woodsnakes, Round Island "Boas ") | |||||
| Family Uropeltidae (Short-tail Snakes) | |||||
| Family Xenopeltidae (Sunbeam Snakes) | |||||
| Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia) | |||||
| Family Acrochordidae (File Snakes) | |||||
| Family Atractaspididae (Mole Vipers) | |||||
| Family Colubridae (Colubrids) | |||||
| Family Elapidae (Cobras, Kraits, Coral Snakes) | |||||
| Family Hydrophiidae (Sea Snakes) | |||||
| Family Viperidae (Vipers and Pit Vipers) | |||||
| Suborder Amphisbaenia (amphisbaenians) | |||||
| Family Amphisbaenidae (Worm Lizards) | |||||
| Family Trogonophidae (Shorthead Worm Lizards) | |||||
| Family Bipedidae (Two-legged Worm Lizards) | |||||
| Subclass Archosauria | |||||
| Order Crocodylia | |||||
| Suborder Eusuchia | |||||
| Family Crocodylidae (Crocodiles) | |||||
Note 1: The taxonomic position of turtles is quite controversial at the present time. This classification represents the traditional, conservative view. (Return)
Note 2: Some taxonomists have elevated all Iguanid (lizard) Subfamilies to full families. For family names, change -inae to -idae. (Return)
Source: The EMBL Reptile Database, EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg, Germany. (Maintained by Peter Uetz, University of Washington.) Taken off the Web, at <http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html>.
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