Dibamidae

Anelytropsis papillosus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dibamia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Dibamia

Familia: Dibamidae
Genera (2 + †1): Anelytropsis – Dibamus – †Hoeckosaurus

Name

Dibamidae Boulenger, 1884: 122

• Type genus: Dibamus Duméril & Bibron, 1839, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Anelytropidae Cope, 1885: 380
  • Type genus: Anelytropsis Cope, 1885, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1884. Synopsis of the families of existing Lacertilia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 5 14: 117–122. BHL
• Cope, E.D. 1885. A contribution to the herpetology of Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22: 379–404. BHL

Additional references

• Greer, A.E. 1985. The relationships of the lizard genera Anelytropsis and Dibamus. Journal of Herpetology 19(1): 116–156. JSTOR
• Townsend, T.M., Larson, A., Louis, E. & Macey, J.R. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics of Squamata: The position of snakes, amphisbaenians, and dibamids, and the root of the squamate tree. Systematic Biology 53(5): 735–757. DOI: 10.1080/10635150490522340 Reference page. 
• Townsend, T.M., Leavitt, D.H. & Reeder, T.W. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal by a microendemic burrowing reptile (Dibamidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences 278(1718): 2568–2574. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2598 Reference page. 
• Čerňanský, A. 2019. The first potential fossil record of a dibamid reptile (Squamata: Dibamidae): a new taxon from the early Oligocene of Central Mongolia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187(3): 782–799. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz047 Reference page. 

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