List of reptiles

Reptilesaretetrapodanimals in theclass Reptilia,comprising today'sturtles,crocodilians,snakes,amphisbaenians,lizards,tuatara,and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptileorders,historically combined with that of modernamphibians,is calledherpetology.

The followinglist of reptileslists thevertebrateclass ofreptilesbyfamily,spanning twosubclasses.Reptilehere is taken in its traditional (paraphyletic) sense, and thusbirdsare not included (although birds are considered reptiles in thecladisticsense).

SubclassAnapsida

OrderTestudines–turtles

SuborderCryptodira^[1]

FamilyChelydridae–common snapping turtlesandalligator snapping turtle
FamilyEmydidae–pond turtlesandbox turtles
FamilyTestudinidae–tortoises
FamilyGeoemydidae–Asian river turtlesand allies
FamilyCarettochelyidae–pignose turtles
FamilyTrionychidae–softshell turtles
FamilyDermatemydidae–river turtles
FamilyKinosternidae–mud turtles
FamilyCheloniidae–sea turtles
FamilyDermochelyidae–leatherback turtles

SuborderPleurodira

FamilyChelidae^[1]–Austro-American sideneck turtles
FamilyPelomedusidae–Afro-American sideneck turtles
FamilyPodocnemididae–Madagascan big-headed turtlesandAmerican sideneck river turtles

SubclassDiapsida

SuperorderLepidosauria

OrderSphenodontia– tuatara

FamilySphenodontidae

OrderSquamata– scaled reptiles

SubfamilyCorytophaninae–casquehead lizard
SubfamilyIguaninae–iguanas
SubfamilyLeiocephalinae
SubfamilyLeiosaurinae
SubfamilyLiolaeminae
SubfamilyOplurinae–Madagascar iguanids

FamilyCrotaphytidae–collaredandleopard lizards
FamilyPhrynosomatidae–horned lizards
FamilyPolychrotidae–anoles^[2]
FamilyHoplocercidae–wood lizards
FamilyTropiduridae–Neotropical ground lizards
FamilyGekkonidae–geckos
FamilyPygopodidae–legless lizards
FamilyDibamidae–blind lizards
FamilyCordylidae–spinytail lizards
FamilyGerrhosauridae–plated lizards
FamilyGymnophthalmidae–spectacled lizards
FamilyTeiidae–whiptailsandtegus
FamilyLacertidae–lacertids
FamilyScincidae–skinks
FamilyXantusiidae–night lizards
FamilyAnguidae– glass lizards
FamilyAnniellidae–American legless lizards
FamilyXenosauridae–knob-scaled lizards
FamilyHelodermatidae–Gila monsters
FamilyLanthanotidae–earless monitor lizards
FamilyVaranidae–monitor lizards

SuborderAmphisbaenia

FamilyAmphisbaenidae–worm lizards
FamilyTrogonophidae–shorthead worm lizards
FamilyBipedidae–two-legged worm lizards

SuborderSerpentes– snakes
InfraorderAlethinophidia

FamilyAcrochordidae– wart snakes
FamilyAniliidae– false coral snakes
FamilyAnomochilidae– dwarf pipe snakes
FamilyAtractaspididae– African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes
FamilyBoidae– Gray, 1825 – boas, anacondas

SubfamilyBoinae
SubfamilyErycinae– Old World sand boas

FamilyBolyeriidae– Mauritius snakes
FamilyColubridae– Colubrids, typical snakes

SubfamilyXenodermatinae
SubfamilyHomalopsinae
SubfamilyBoodontinae
SubfamilyPseudoxyrhophiinae
SubfamilyColubrinae
SubfamilyPsammophiinae
SubfamilyNatricinae
SubfamilyPseudoxenodontinae
SubfamilyDipsadinae
SubfamilyXenodontinae

FamilyCylindrophiidae– Asian pipe snakes
FamilyElapidae– cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes
FamilyLoxocemidae– Mexican Python s
FamilyPythonidae– Python s
FamilyTropidophiidae– dwarf boas
FamilyUropeltidae– pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes
FamilyViperidae– vipers, pitvipers

SubfamilyAzemiopinae– Fae's viper
SubfamilyCausinae– night adders
SubfamilyCrotalinae– pitvipers, rattlesnakes
SubfamilyViperinae– true vipers

FamilyXenopeltidae– sunbeam snakes

InfraorderScolecophidia– blind snakes

FamilyAnomalepididae– primitive blind snakes
FamilyLeptotyphlopidae– slender blind snakes, thread snakes
FamilyTyphlopidae– blind snakes, typical blind snakes

DivisionArchosauria

SuperorderCrocodylomorpha

OrderCrocodylia–crocodilians

SuborderEusuchia

References

^^a ^bPereira, 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.hdl:11336/41137.
^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.

External links

Reptile Database

[Multilocus-1] 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.hdl:11336/41137.

[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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