Squamata
The Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, are the lairgest recent order o reptiles, comprisin aw lizards an snakes.
Scaled reptiles | |
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Eastren blue-tongued lizard | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superorder: | Lepidosauria |
Order: | Squamata Oppel, 1811 |
Subgroups[2] | |
Anguimorpha | |
black: Range of Squamata |
References
eedit- ↑ Hutchinson, M. N.; Skinner, A.; Lee, M. S. Y. (2012). "Tikiguania and the antiquity of squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)". Biology Letters. 8 (4): 665–669. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.1216. PMC 3391445. PMID 22279152.
- ↑ Wiens, J. J., Hutter, C. R., Mulcahy, D. G., Noonan, B. P., Townsend, T. M., Sites, J. W., & Reeder, T. W. (2012). Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species. Biology Letters, 8(6), 1043-1046.