Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.

Skin of a sand lizard, showing squamate reptiles iconic scales
A white-headed dwarf gecko with shed tail

The following list of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by family, spanning two subclasses. Reptile here is taken in its traditional (paraphyletic) sense, and thus birds are not included (although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense).

Subclass Anapsida edit

Order Testudinesturtles edit

Subclass Diapsida edit

Superorder Lepidosauria edit

Order Sphenodontia – tuatara edit

Order Squamata – scaled reptiles edit

Division Archosauria edit

Superorder Crocodylomorpha

Order Crocodyliacrocodilians edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Pereira, Anieli G.; Sterli, Juliana; Moreira, Filipe R.R.; Schrago, Carlos G. (August 2017). "Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 113: 59–66. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.008.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R.; Etheridge, Richard; Janies, Daniel; Titus, Tom A. (June 2001). "Total Evidence, Sequence Alignment, Evolution of Polychrotid Lizards, and a Reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata: Iguania)". American Museum Novitates. 3343: 1–39. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)343<0001:TESAEO>2.0.CO;2.

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