Squamata

Squamata diversity

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Squamata

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

‎Classis: Reptilia
Subclassis: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladi (5): Dibamia – Gekkota – Lacertoidea – Scincomorpha – Toxicofera
Genera incertae sedis: †Chmoetokadmon – †Eolacerta – †Hongshanxi – †Jucaraseps – †Liushusaurus – †Megachirella – †Meyasaurus – †Sakurasaurus – †Scandensia – †Yabeinosaurus

Name

Squamata Oppel, 1811: 14

References

Primary references

• Oppel, M. 1811. Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben. Joseph Lindauer: München. XII + 86 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Camp, C.L. 1923. Classification of the lizards. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48: 289–480. hdl: 2246/898 Reference page. 
• Conradie, W., Branch, W.R. & Watson, G. 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576(1): 1–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L. & Quah, E.S.H. 2019. An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos. Zootaxa 4545(2): 230–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Vidal, N. & Hedges, S.B. 2005. The phylogeny of squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) inferred from nine nuclear protein-coding genes. Comptes Rendus Biologies 328(10–11): 1000–1008. DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.10.001 Reference page. 
• Conrad, J.L. 2008. Phylogeny and systematics of squamata (Reptilia) based on morphology . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 310: 1–182. hdl: 2246/5915 Reference page. 
• Vidal, N. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. The molecular evolutionary tree of lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians. Comptes Rendus Biologies 332(2-3): 129–139. DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.07.010 Reference page. 
• Wiens, J.J., Kuczynski, C.A., Townsend, T., Reeder, T.W., Mulcahy, D.G. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2010. Combining Phylogenomics and Fossils in Higher-Level Squamate Reptile Phylogeny: Molecular Data Change the Placement of Fossil Taxa. Systematic Biology 59(6): 674–688. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq048 Reference page. 
• Losos, J.B., Hillis, D.M. & Greene, H.W. 2012. Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science 338(6113): 1428–1429. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232455 Reference page. 
• Meik, J.M., Lawing, A.M. & Watson, J.A. 2020. Use of scalation landmarks in geometric morphometrics of squamate reptiles: a comment on homology. Zootaxa 4816(3): 397–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.3.12 Reference page. 
• Gauthier, J.A., Kearney, M., Maisano, J.A., Rieppel, O. & Behlke, A.D.B. 2012. Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 53(1): 3–308. DOI: 10.3374/014.053.0101 Reference page. 
• 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. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0703 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(93): 1–53. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Reeder, T.W., Townsend, T.M., Mulcahy, D.G., Noonan, B.P., Wood Jr., P.L., Sites Jr., J.W. & Wiens, J.J. 2015. Integrated analyses resolve conflicts over squamate reptile phylogeny and reveal unexpected placements for fossil taxa. PLoS One 10: e0118199. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118199 Reference page. 
• Zheng, Y. & Wiens, J.J. 2016. Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part B): 537–547. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.009 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. 2017. Novel Approaches for Phylogenetic Inference from Morphological Data and Total-Evidence Dating in Squamate Reptiles (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians). Systematic Biology 66(1): 38–56. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw068 Reference page. 
• Rosas-Espinoza, V.C., Álvarez-Grzybowska, E., González, A.A.G., Santiago-Pérez, A.L., Peña-Joya, K.E., Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F.A., Pérez, L.D. & Martínez, F.M.H. 2024. Taxonomic diversity of amphibians (Amphibia, Anura) and reptiles (Reptilia, Testudines, Squamata) in a heterogeneous landscape in west-central Mexico: a checklist and notes on geographical distributions. ZooKeys 1211: 29–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1211.122565 Reference page. 
• Streicher, J.W. & Wiens, J.J. 2017. Phylogenomic analyses of more than 4000 nuclear loci resolve the origin of snakes among lizard families. Biology Letters 13(9): 20170393. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0393 Reference page. 
• Burbrink, F.T., Grazziotin, F.G., Pyron, R.A., Cundall, D., Donnellan, S., Irish, F., Keogh, J.S., Kraus, F., Murphy, R.W., Noonan, B., Raxworthy, C.J., Ruane, S., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Zaher, H. 2020. Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships. Systematic Biology 69(3): 502–520. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syz062 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• العربية: حرشفيات
• беларуская: Лускаватыя
• čeština: Šupinatí
• Deutsch: Schuppenkriechtiere
• English: Scaled Reptiles
• español: Escamosos
• français: Squamates
• magyar: Pikkelyesbőrűek
• հայերեն: Թեփուկավորներ
• 日本語: 有鱗目
• 한국어: 유린목(有鱗目), 뱀목
• norsk: Skjellkrypdyr
• polski: Łuskonośne
• português: Escamados
• русский: Чешуйчатые
• Türkçe: Pullular
• українська: Лускаті

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