List of reptiles
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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
.
The following list of reptiles lists the
paraphyletic) sense, and thus birds are not included (although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic
sense).
Subclass Anapsida
Order Testudines – turtles
- Suborder Cryptodira[1]
- Family Chelydridae – common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle
- Family box turtles
- Family Testudinidae – tortoises
- Family Asian river turtlesand allies
- Family pignose turtles
- Family softshell turtles
- Family river turtles
- Family mud turtles
- Family Cheloniidae – sea turtles
- Family leatherback turtles
- Suborder Pleurodira
- Family Austro-American sideneck turtles
- Family Afro-American sideneck turtles
- Family American sideneck river turtles
- Family
Subclass Diapsida
Superorder Lepidosauria
Order Sphenodontia – tuatara
- Family Sphenodontidae
Order Squamata – scaled reptiles
- Family Agamidae – agamas
- Family Chamaeleonidae – chameleons
- Family Iguanidae
- Subfamily casquehead lizard
- Subfamily Iguaninae – iguanas
- Subfamily Leiocephalinae
- Subfamily Leiosaurinae
- Subfamily Liolaeminae
- Subfamily Madagascar iguanids
- Subfamily
- Family leopard lizards
- Family Phrynosomatidae – horned lizards
- Family Polychrotidae – anoles [2]
- Family wood lizards
- Family Neotropical ground lizards
- Family Gekkonidae – geckos
- Family Pygopodidae – legless lizards
- Family blind lizards
- Family spinytail lizards
- Family plated lizards
- Family spectacled lizards
- Family Teiidae – whiptails and tegus
- Family lacertids
- Family Scincidae – skinks
- Family Xantusiidae – night lizards
- Family Anguidae – glass lizards
- Family Anniellidae – American legless lizards
- Family knob-scaled lizards
- Family Helodermatidae – Gila monsters
- Family Lanthanotidae – earless monitor lizards
- Family Varanidae – monitor lizards
- Suborder Amphisbaenia
- Family worm lizards
- Family Trogonophidae – shorthead worm lizards
- Family Bipedidae – two-legged worm lizards
- Family
- Suborder Serpentes– snakes
- Infraorder Alethinophidia
- Family Acrochordidae– wart snakes
- Family Aniliidae– false coral snakes
- Family Anomochilidae– dwarf pipe snakes
- Family Atractaspididae – African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes
- Family Boidae – Gray, 1825 – boas, anacondas
- Family Bolyeriidae – Mauritius snakes
- Family Colubridae – Colubrids, typical snakes
- Subfamily Xenodermatinae
- Subfamily Homalopsinae
- Subfamily Boodontinae
- Subfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae
- Subfamily Colubrinae
- Subfamily Psammophiinae
- Subfamily Natricinae
- Subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae
- Subfamily Dipsadinae
- Subfamily Xenodontinae
- Subfamily
- Family Cylindrophiidae– Asian pipe snakes
- Family Elapidae – cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes
- Family Loxocemidae– Mexican pythons
- Family Pythonidae – pythons
- Family Tropidophiidae – dwarf boas
- Family Uropeltidae – pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes
- Family Viperidae – vipers, pitvipers
- Subfamily Azemiopinae– Fae's viper
- Subfamily Causinae– night adders
- Subfamily Crotalinae– pitvipers, rattlesnakes
- Subfamily Viperinae – true vipers
- Subfamily
- Family Xenopeltidae– sunbeam snakes
- Family
- Infraorder Scolecophidia – blind snakes
- Family Anomalepididae – primitive blind snakes
- Family Leptotyphlopidae – slender blind snakes, thread snakes
- Family Typhlopidae – blind snakes, typical blind snakes
Division Archosauria
Superorder Crocodylomorpha
Order Crocodylia – crocodilians
- Suborder Eusuchia
- Family Crocodylidae – crocodiles
- Family Alligatoridae – alligators
- Family Gavialidae – gharials
- Family
Class Aves – Birds
See also
- Reptile
- List of regional reptiles lists
- List of birds
- List of snakes
- Herping
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