Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Squamata

Index Squamata

Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles. [1]

233 relations: Acrochordidae, Acrochordus granulatus, Agamidae, Agkistrodon contortrix, Agkistrodon piscivorus, Alabama, Alethinophidia, Alfred Romer, American legless lizard, Amerophidia, Amphisbaena darwinii, Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae, Anatomy, Anguidae, Anguimorpha, Anguis fragilis, Anilius, Animal sexual behaviour, Anomalepididae, Anomochilus, Anomochilus leonardi, Archosaur, Asexual reproduction, Atractaspis bibronii, Ball python, Bipedidae, Blanus, Blasius Merrem, Bloomberg Television, Boidae, Bolyeriidae, Booidea, Boston, Burton's legless lizard, Cadea (lizard), Cadea blanoides, Calabar python, Carolina anole, Carphodactylidae, Chalarodon, Chameleon, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Checkerboard worm lizard, Chinese crocodile lizard, Clade, Class (biology), Colubridae, Colubroidea, Common collared lizard, ..., Corallus hortulanus, Cordylidae, Cordylus, Corytophanidae, Cretaceous, Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crotaphytinae, Crown group, Curly-tailed lizards, Cylindrophis, Cylindrophis ruffus, Dactyloidae, Darwin's iguana, Dibamidae, Dibamus nicobaricum, Dinosaur, Diplodactylidae, Dipsadinae, Douglas A. Rossman, Earless monitor lizard, Early Jurassic, Early Triassic, Eastern bearded dragon, Eastern blue-tongued lizard, Edward Drinker Cope, Edward Harrison Taylor, Elapidae, Epicrates maurus, Erectile tissue, Eublepharidae, Evolutionary arms race, Extinction, Fossil, Friedrich Boie, Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Genetics, Genome, Genus, George Albert Boulenger, Gerrhopilidae, Gerrhosauridae, Gila monster, Gold tegu, Granite night lizard, Grass snake, Greater earless lizard, Green anaconda, Gymnophthalmidae, Heloderma, Hemipenis, Holocene, Homalopsidae, Hoplocercinae, Iberian worm lizard, Iguanidae, Iguanomorpha, Inbreeding depression, Johann Baptist von Spix, Johannes Peter Müller, John Edward Gray, King cobra, Komodo dragon, Lacertidae, Lacertoidea, Lamprophiidae, Late Triassic, Leiosauridae, Leo Brongersma, Leonhard Stejneger, Leopold Fitzinger, Lepidosauria, Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlops dulcis, Liolaemidae, Liolaemus nitidus, Live Science, Lizard, Loxocemus, Marine iguana, Mating, Maxilla, Megachirella, Meiosis, Mexican beaded lizard, Mexican mole lizard, Microlophus peruvianus, Middle Jurassic, Middle Triassic, Molecular phylogenetics, Monophyly, Morphology (biology), Mosasaur, Mouth, Natricinae, Nature (journal), Neontology, Neurocranium, New Jersey, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Night lizard, Ocellated lizard, Ophidia, Opluridae, Order (biology), Oviparity, Ovoviviparity, Paraphyly, Pareidae, Parthenogenesis, Paulo Vanzolini, Penile spines, Penis, Perciformes, Perentie, Phrynosomatinae, Phyllodactylidae, Phylogenetics, Pleurodonta, Plumed basilisk, Polychrotinae, Predation, Proteome, Pseudoxenodontinae, Purch Group, Pygopodidae, Pythonidae, Quadrate bone, Reptile, Rhineuridae, Rhynchocephalia, Robert Hoffstetter, Round Island burrowing boa, Saurischia, Scale (anatomy), Scincomorpha, Scolecophidia, Sexual selection, Shinisauria, Shinisauridae, Simon & Schuster, Sister group, Skink, Snake, Snake skeleton, Species, Sperm, Sphaerodactylidae, Sphaerodactylus ariasae, Sudan plated lizard, Taxon, Teiidae, Toxicofera, Trachyboa, Trogonophidae, Tropidophiidae, Tropidurinae, Tuatara, Typhlopidae, Typhlops vermicularis, Underwoodisaurus milii, University of Alabama, Uropeltidae, Uropeltis ceylanica, Varanidae, Varanoidea, Veiled chameleon, Vertebrate, Vipera aspis, Viperidae, Viviparity, Western blue-tongued lizard, X-ray microtomography, Xenodermidae, Xenopeltis, Xenopeltis unicolor, Xenophidion, Xenosauridae, Xenotyphlops, Xenotyphlops grandidieri, Year, Zygote. Expand index (183 more) »

Acrochordidae

The Acrochordidae, commonly known as wart snakes, Java wart snakes, file snakes, elephant trunk snakes, or dogface snakes, are a monogeneric family created for the genus Acrochordus.

New!!: Squamata and Acrochordidae · See more »

Acrochordus granulatus

Acrochordus granulatus is a snake species found from India through Southeast Asia to the Solomon Islands.

New!!: Squamata and Acrochordus granulatus · See more »

Agamidae

Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe.

New!!: Squamata and Agamidae · See more »

Agkistrodon contortrix

Agkistrodon contortrix is a species of venomous snake endemic to Eastern North America, a member of the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers).

New!!: Squamata and Agkistrodon contortrix · See more »

Agkistrodon piscivorus

Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the southeastern United States.

New!!: Squamata and Agkistrodon piscivorus · See more »

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

New!!: Squamata and Alabama · See more »

Alethinophidia

The Alethinophidia are an infraorder of snakes that includes all snakes other than blind snakes and thread snakes.

New!!: Squamata and Alethinophidia · See more »

Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

New!!: Squamata and Alfred Romer · See more »

American legless lizard

The family Anniellidae, known as American legless lizards, contains six species in a single genus Anniella: A. pulchra, the California legless lizard, the rare, A. geronimensis, Baja California legless lizard, and four more discovered in 2013.

New!!: Squamata and American legless lizard · See more »

Amerophidia

The Amerophidia, also known as amerophidian snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains two families: Aniliidae (containing a single species, Anilius scytale, the red pipesnake) and the boa-like Tropidophiidae (containing 2 genera, Trachyboa with 2 species and Tropidophis with 32).

New!!: Squamata and Amerophidia · See more »

Amphisbaena darwinii

Amphisbaena darwinii is a species of reptile in the genus Amphisbaena.

New!!: Squamata and Amphisbaena darwinii · See more »

Amphisbaenia

Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 180 extant species.

New!!: Squamata and Amphisbaenia · See more »

Amphisbaenidae

The Amphisbaenidae, common name worm lizards, are a family of amphisbaenians, a group of limbless vertebrates.

New!!: Squamata and Amphisbaenidae · See more »

Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

New!!: Squamata and Anatomy · See more »

Anguidae

Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere.

New!!: Squamata and Anguidae · See more »

Anguimorpha

Anguimorphs of the infraorder Anguimorpha include the anguids (alligator lizards, glass lizards, galliwasps and legless lizards).

New!!: Squamata and Anguimorpha · See more »

Anguis fragilis

Anguis fragilis, the slowworm, is a legless lizard native to Eurasia.

New!!: Squamata and Anguis fragilis · See more »

Anilius

The Aniliidae are a monotypic family created for the monotypic genus Anilius that contains the single species A. scytale.

New!!: Squamata and Anilius · See more »

Animal sexual behaviour

Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species.

New!!: Squamata and Animal sexual behaviour · See more »

Anomalepididae

The Anomalepididae are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Central and South America.

New!!: Squamata and Anomalepididae · See more »

Anomochilus

The Anomochilidae, or anomochilids, are a monotypic family of snakes, created for the genus Anomochilus, which currently contains three species.

New!!: Squamata and Anomochilus · See more »

Anomochilus leonardi

Anomochilus leonardi is a species of snake in the family Anomochilidae.

New!!: Squamata and Anomochilus leonardi · See more »

Archosaur

Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of birds and crocodilians.

New!!: Squamata and Archosaur · See more »

Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it does not involve the fusion of gametes, and almost never changes the number of chromosomes.

New!!: Squamata and Asexual reproduction · See more »

Atractaspis bibronii

Atractaspis bibronii is a species of venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.

New!!: Squamata and Atractaspis bibronii · See more »

Ball python

The ball python (Python regius), also known as the royal python,Mehrtens JM.

New!!: Squamata and Ball python · See more »

Bipedidae

Bipedidae is a family of amphisbaenian lizards that includes the extant genus Bipes represented by four species from Mexico and the extinct genus Anniealexandria represented by one species that lived in what is now Wyoming during the earliest Eocene approximately 55 million years ago.

New!!: Squamata and Bipedidae · See more »

Blanus

Blanus is a genus of amphisbaenians found in the Mediterranean region of Europe and North Africa.

New!!: Squamata and Blanus · See more »

Blasius Merrem

Blasius Merrem (4 February 1761 – 23 February 1824) was a German naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist.

New!!: Squamata and Blasius Merrem · See more »

Bloomberg Television

Bloomberg Television (typically referred to on-air as simply Bloomberg) is an American-based international cable and satellite business news television channel, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide.

New!!: Squamata and Bloomberg Television · See more »

Boidae

The Boidae (Common names: boas, boids) are a family of nonvenomous snakes primarily found in the Americas, although also existing in Africa, Madagascar, Europe, Asia, and some Pacific Islands.

New!!: Squamata and Boidae · See more »

Bolyeriidae

The Bolyeriidae are a family of snakes native to Mauritius and a few islands around it, especially Round Island.

New!!: Squamata and Bolyeriidae · See more »

Booidea

The Booidea, also known as booid snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains boas (family Boidae) and other closely related boa-like snakes (but not pythons, which are in a separate superfamily called Pythonoidea).

New!!: Squamata and Booidea · See more »

Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

New!!: Squamata and Boston · See more »

Burton's legless lizard

Burton's legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae.

New!!: Squamata and Burton's legless lizard · See more »

Cadea (lizard)

Cadea is a genus of Amphisbaenia, commonly known as Cuban keel-headed worm lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Cadea (lizard) · See more »

Cadea blanoides

Cadea blanoides is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Cadeidae.

New!!: Squamata and Cadea blanoides · See more »

Calabar python

The Calabar python (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a nonvenomous boa species endemic to west and central Africa.

New!!: Squamata and Calabar python · See more »

Carolina anole

The Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) is an arboreal anole lizard native to the southeastern United States (west to Texas) and introduced elsewhere.

New!!: Squamata and Carolina anole · See more »

Carphodactylidae

The Carphodactylidae are a family of geckos consisting of 30 described species.

New!!: Squamata and Carphodactylidae · See more »

Chalarodon

Chalarodon is a genus of Malagasy terrestrial iguanian lizard.

New!!: Squamata and Chalarodon · See more »

Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.

New!!: Squamata and Chameleon · See more »

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French biologist and ornithologist.

New!!: Squamata and Charles Lucien Bonaparte · See more »

Checkerboard worm lizard

The checkerboard worm lizard, Trogonophis wiegmanni, is a species of reptile in the family Trogonophidae.

New!!: Squamata and Checkerboard worm lizard · See more »

Chinese crocodile lizard

The Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) is a semiaquatic lizard found only in cool forests in the Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou Provinces of southern China, and the Quảng Ninh Province in northern Vietnam.

New!!: Squamata and Chinese crocodile lizard · See more »

Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

New!!: Squamata and Clade · See more »

Class (biology)

In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.

New!!: Squamata and Class (biology) · See more »

Colubridae

Colubridae (from Latin coluber, snake) is a family of snakes.

New!!: Squamata and Colubridae · See more »

Colubroidea

The Colubroidea are a superfamily in the suborder Serpentes (snakes).

New!!: Squamata and Colubroidea · See more »

Common collared lizard

The common collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris), also called eastern collared lizard,Stebbins, R.C. 2003.

New!!: Squamata and Common collared lizard · See more »

Corallus hortulanus

Corallus hortulanus is a non-venomous boa species found in South America.

New!!: Squamata and Corallus hortulanus · See more »

Cordylidae

Cordylidae is a family of small to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa.

New!!: Squamata and Cordylidae · See more »

Cordylus

The genus Cordylus (Sauria: Cordylidae) includes a wide variety of small- to medium-sized spiny lizards from Africa, collectively called girdle-tailed or girdled lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Cordylus · See more »

Corytophanidae

Corytophanidae is a family of iguanian lizards, also called casquehead lizards or helmeted lizards, endemic to the New World.

New!!: Squamata and Corytophanidae · See more »

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

New!!: Squamata and Cretaceous · See more »

Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K-T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock.

New!!: Squamata and Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary · See more »

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.

New!!: Squamata and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event · See more »

Crotaphytinae

The Crotaphytinae, or collared lizards, are a subfamily of desert-dwelling reptiles native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

New!!: Squamata and Crotaphytinae · See more »

Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group of a collection of species consists of the living representatives of the collection together with their ancestors back to their most recent common ancestor as well as all of that ancestor's descendants.

New!!: Squamata and Crown group · See more »

Curly-tailed lizards

The curly-tailed lizards belong to the family Leiocephalidae. One of the defining features of these lizards is that, when approached, their tail curls over.

New!!: Squamata and Curly-tailed lizards · See more »

Cylindrophis

The Cylindrophiidae are a monotypic family of secretive, semifossorial, nonvenomous snakes containing the genus Cylindrophis found in southeastern Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Cylindrophis · See more »

Cylindrophis ruffus

The red-tailed pipe snake, red cylinder snake, or common pipe snake, Cylindrophis ruffus is a snake species found in Southeast Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Cylindrophis ruffus · See more »

Dactyloidae

Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.

New!!: Squamata and Dactyloidae · See more »

Darwin's iguana

Diplolaemus darwinii, commonly known as Darwin's iguana, is a species of lizards native to the southern tip of South America.

New!!: Squamata and Darwin's iguana · See more »

Dibamidae

Dibamidae is a family of legless lizards found in tropical forests.

New!!: Squamata and Dibamidae · See more »

Dibamus nicobaricum

Dibamus nicobaricum is a species of lizard found in the Nicobar Islands of India.

New!!: Squamata and Dibamus nicobaricum · See more »

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

New!!: Squamata and Dinosaur · See more »

Diplodactylidae

The Diplodactylidae are a family in the suborder Gekkota (geckos), with about 137 species in 25 genera.

New!!: Squamata and Diplodactylidae · See more »

Dipsadinae

Dipsadinae is a large subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Dipsadidae).

New!!: Squamata and Dipsadinae · See more »

Douglas A. Rossman

Douglas Athon "Dag" Rossman (July 4, 1936 - July 23, 2015) was a U.S. herpetologist specializing in Garter snakes.

New!!: Squamata and Douglas A. Rossman · See more »

Earless monitor lizard

The earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) is a semiaquatic, brown lizard native to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.

New!!: Squamata and Earless monitor lizard · See more »

Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.

New!!: Squamata and Early Jurassic · See more »

Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

New!!: Squamata and Early Triassic · See more »

Eastern bearded dragon

The eastern bearded dragon (Pogona barbata), also known as common bearded dragon or simply bearded lizard, is an agamid lizard found in wooded parts of Australia.

New!!: Squamata and Eastern bearded dragon · See more »

Eastern blue-tongued lizard

The eastern blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) is a subspecies of large skink which is common throughout eastern Australia, often found in bushland and suburban areas where conditions are suitable.

New!!: Squamata and Eastern blue-tongued lizard · See more »

Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

New!!: Squamata and Edward Drinker Cope · See more »

Edward Harrison Taylor

Edward Harrison Taylor (April 23, 1889 – June 16, 1978) was an American herpetologist from Missouri.

New!!: Squamata and Edward Harrison Taylor · See more »

Elapidae

The Elapidae (ἔλλοψ éllops, "sea-fish") are a family of venomous snakes found in the tropics and subtropics around the world, with terrestrial forms in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, and South America as well as marine forms in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

New!!: Squamata and Elapidae · See more »

Epicrates maurus

Epicrates maurus is a species of non-venomous constrictor, in the family Boinae, found in Amazon region of South America.

New!!: Squamata and Epicrates maurus · See more »

Erectile tissue

Erectile tissue is tissue in the body with numerous vascular spaces that may become engorged with blood.

New!!: Squamata and Erectile tissue · See more »

Eublepharidae

The Eublepharidae are a family of geckos consisting of 30 described species in six genera.

New!!: Squamata and Eublepharidae · See more »

Evolutionary arms race

In evolutionary biology, an evolutionary arms race is a struggle between competing sets of co-evolving genes, traits, or species, that develop adaptations and counter-adaptations against each other, resembling an arms race.

New!!: Squamata and Evolutionary arms race · See more »

Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

New!!: Squamata and Extinction · See more »

Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

New!!: Squamata and Fossil · See more »

Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer.

New!!: Squamata and Friedrich Boie · See more »

Gekkonidae

Gekkonidae is the largest family of geckos, containing over 950 described species in 61 genera.

New!!: Squamata and Gekkonidae · See more »

Gekkota

Gekkota is an infraorder of squamate reptiles in the suborder Scleroglossa, comprising all geckos and the limbless "snake-lizards" of family Pygopodidae.

New!!: Squamata and Gekkota · See more »

Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

New!!: Squamata and Genetics · See more »

Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.

New!!: Squamata and Genome · See more »

Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

New!!: Squamata and Genus · See more »

George Albert Boulenger

George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

New!!: Squamata and George Albert Boulenger · See more »

Gerrhopilidae

The Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan blindsnakes) are a family of blindsnakes that contains at least 16 species in the genus Gerrhopilus, and possibly others (the genus Cathetorhinus and the species known as either Malayotyphlops manilae, Gerrhopilus manilae, or Typhlops manilae) as well.

New!!: Squamata and Gerrhopilidae · See more »

Gerrhosauridae

The Gerrhosauridae are a family of lizards native to Africa and Madagascar.

New!!: Squamata and Gerrhosauridae · See more »

Gila monster

The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is a species of venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexican state of Sonora.

New!!: Squamata and Gila monster · See more »

Gold tegu

The gold tegu, also known as golden tegu, common tegu, black tegu, Colombian tegu, and tiger lizard (on Trinidad), is a species of tegu.

New!!: Squamata and Gold tegu · See more »

Granite night lizard

The granite night lizard (Xantusia henshawi) is a species of xantusiid lizard endemic to North America.

New!!: Squamata and Granite night lizard · See more »

Grass snake

The grass snake (Natrix natrix), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian non-venomous snake.

New!!: Squamata and Grass snake · See more »

Greater earless lizard

The greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is a species of earless lizard endemic to the southwestern United States.

New!!: Squamata and Greater earless lizard · See more »

Green anaconda

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the common anaconda and water boa, is a non-venomous boa species found in South America.

New!!: Squamata and Green anaconda · See more »

Gymnophthalmidae

Gymnophthalmidae is a family of lizards with at least 250 species, sometimes known as spectacled lizards or microteiids.

New!!: Squamata and Gymnophthalmidae · See more »

Heloderma

Heloderma, the only genus of the family Helodermatidae, consists of venomous lizards native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and as far south as Guatemala.

New!!: Squamata and Heloderma · See more »

Hemipenis

A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards).

New!!: Squamata and Hemipenis · See more »

Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

New!!: Squamata and Holocene · See more »

Homalopsidae

Common name: water snakes, Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, bockadam, ular air (Indonesian). The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 28 genera and more than 50 species.

New!!: Squamata and Homalopsidae · See more »

Hoplocercinae

Hoplocercinae are a subfamily of lizards native to the tropical forests, woodlands and savanna-like habitats of Central and South America.

New!!: Squamata and Hoplocercinae · See more »

Iberian worm lizard

The Iberian worm lizard or European worm lizard (Blanus cinereus) is a species of reptile in the family Blanidae (worm lizards) of the suborder Amphisbaenidae.

New!!: Squamata and Iberian worm lizard · See more »

Iguanidae

The Iguanidae are a family of lizards composed of iguanas and related species.

New!!: Squamata and Iguanidae · See more »

Iguanomorpha

Iguania is an infraorder of squamate reptiles that includes iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and New World lizards like anoles and phrynosomatids.

New!!: Squamata and Iguanomorpha · See more »

Inbreeding depression

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of inbreeding, or breeding of related individuals.

New!!: Squamata and Inbreeding depression · See more »

Johann Baptist von Spix

Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist.

New!!: Squamata and Johann Baptist von Spix · See more »

Johannes Peter Müller

Johannes Peter Müller (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858) was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.

New!!: Squamata and Johannes Peter Müller · See more »

John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.

New!!: Squamata and John Edward Gray · See more »

King cobra

The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), also known as the hamadryad, is a venomous snake species in the family Elapidae, endemic to forests from India through Southeast Asia.

New!!: Squamata and King cobra · See more »

Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar.

New!!: Squamata and Komodo dragon · See more »

Lacertidae

The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Lacertidae · See more »

Lacertoidea

The Lacertoidea is a group of lizards that includes the Lacertidae, Teiidae, Gymnophthalmidae, and the burrowing Amphisbaenia.

New!!: Squamata and Lacertoidea · See more »

Lamprophiidae

The Lamprophiidae are a family of snakes found mostly in Africa, but also in parts of southern Europe and western Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Lamprophiidae · See more »

Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

New!!: Squamata and Late Triassic · See more »

Leiosauridae

Leiosauridae is a family of lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Leiosauridae · See more »

Leo Brongersma

Leo Daniel Brongersma (17 May 1907 in Bloemendaal, North Holland – 24 July 1994 in Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist, herpetologist, author, and lecturer.

New!!: Squamata and Leo Brongersma · See more »

Leonhard Stejneger

Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist.

New!!: Squamata and Leonhard Stejneger · See more »

Leopold Fitzinger

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.

New!!: Squamata and Leopold Fitzinger · See more »

Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) are reptiles with overlapping scales.

New!!: Squamata and Lepidosauria · See more »

Leptotyphlopidae

The Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called slender blind snakes or thread snakes) are a family of snakes found in North and South America, Africa, and Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Leptotyphlopidae · See more »

Leptotyphlops dulcis

Leptotyphlops dulcis is a blind snake species endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

New!!: Squamata and Leptotyphlops dulcis · See more »

Liolaemidae

Liolaemidae are a family of iguanian lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Liolaemidae · See more »

Liolaemus nitidus

Liolaemus nitidus (shining tree iguana) is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae.

New!!: Squamata and Liolaemus nitidus · See more »

Live Science

Live Science is a science news website run by Purch, which it purchased from Imaginova in 2009.

New!!: Squamata and Live Science · See more »

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

New!!: Squamata and Lizard · See more »

Loxocemus

Loxocemus bicolor, sole member of the monotypic family Loxocemidae, is a species of python-like snake found in Mexico and Central America.

New!!: Squamata and Loxocemus · See more »

Marine iguana

The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), also known as the Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile.

New!!: Squamata and Marine iguana · See more »

Mating

In biology, mating (or mateing in British English) is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms, usually for the purposes of sexual reproduction.

New!!: Squamata and Mating · See more »

Maxilla

The maxilla (plural: maxillae) in animals is the upper jawbone formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

New!!: Squamata and Maxilla · See more »

Megachirella

Megachirella is an extinct genus of stem-squamate, a member of the order Squamata, that lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic and contains only one known species, Megachirella wachtleri.

New!!: Squamata and Megachirella · See more »

Meiosis

Meiosis (from Greek μείωσις, meiosis, which means lessening) is a specialized type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell that gave rise to them.

New!!: Squamata and Meiosis · See more »

Mexican beaded lizard

The Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) is a species of lizard in the family Helodermatidae, one of the two species of venomous beaded lizards found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala.

New!!: Squamata and Mexican beaded lizard · See more »

Mexican mole lizard

The Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus), commonly known as the five-toed worm lizard, or simply as Bipes, is a species of amphisbaenian, which is endemic to the Baja California Peninsula.

New!!: Squamata and Mexican mole lizard · See more »

Microlophus peruvianus

Microlophus peruvianus, the Peru Pacific iguana, is a species of lava lizard endemic to the Ecuador, Peru, and Chile.

New!!: Squamata and Microlophus peruvianus · See more »

Middle Jurassic

The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.

New!!: Squamata and Middle Jurassic · See more »

Middle Triassic

In the geologic timescale, the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided.

New!!: Squamata and Middle Triassic · See more »

Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

New!!: Squamata and Molecular phylogenetics · See more »

Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

New!!: Squamata and Monophyly · See more »

Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

New!!: Squamata and Morphology (biology) · See more »

Mosasaur

Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.

New!!: Squamata and Mosasaur · See more »

Mouth

In animal anatomy, the mouth, also known as the oral cavity, buccal cavity, or in Latin cavum oris, is the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds.

New!!: Squamata and Mouth · See more »

Natricinae

The Natricinae are a subfamily of the Colubridae family of snakes, which comprises 28 genera.

New!!: Squamata and Natricinae · See more »

Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

New!!: Squamata and Nature (journal) · See more »

Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

New!!: Squamata and Neontology · See more »

Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

New!!: Squamata and Neurocranium · See more »

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

New!!: Squamata and New Jersey · See more »

Nicolaus Michael Oppel

Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist.

New!!: Squamata and Nicolaus Michael Oppel · See more »

Night lizard

Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) are a group of small scincomorph lizards, averaging from less than 4 cm to over 12 cm snout-vent length.

New!!: Squamata and Night lizard · See more »

Ocellated lizard

The ocellated lizard, eyed lizard or jeweled lacerta in the pet trade (Timon lepidus) (syn. Lacerta lepida) is a species of wall lizard also known as the (sardão, lagarto ocelado).

New!!: Squamata and Ocellated lizard · See more »

Ophidia

Ophidia (also known as Pan-Serpentes) is a group of squamate reptiles including modern snakes and all reptiles more closely related to snakes than to other living groups of lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Ophidia · See more »

Opluridae

The Opluridae, or Madagascan iguanas, are a family of moderately sized lizards native to Madagascar and Grande Comore.

New!!: Squamata and Opluridae · See more »

Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

New!!: Squamata and Order (biology) · See more »

Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother.

New!!: Squamata and Oviparity · See more »

Ovoviviparity

Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, or ovivipary, is a mode of reproduction in animals in which embryos that develop inside eggs remain in the mother's body until they are ready to hatch.

New!!: Squamata and Ovoviviparity · See more »

Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

New!!: Squamata and Paraphyly · See more »

Pareidae

Pareidae is a small family of snakes found in southeast Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Pareidae · See more »

Parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek label + label) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization.

New!!: Squamata and Parthenogenesis · See more »

Paulo Vanzolini

Paulo Emilio Vanzolini (April 25, 1924 - April 28, 2013) was a Brazilian scientist and music composer.

New!!: Squamata and Paulo Vanzolini · See more »

Penile spines

Many mammalian species have developed keratinized penile spines along the glans and/or shaft, which may be involved in sexual selection.

New!!: Squamata and Penile spines · See more »

Penis

A penis (plural penises or penes) is the primary sexual organ that male animals use to inseminate sexually receptive mates (usually females and hermaphrodites) during copulation.

New!!: Squamata and Penis · See more »

Perciformes

Perciformes, also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish.

New!!: Squamata and Perciformes · See more »

Perentie

The perentie (Varanus giganteus) is the largest monitor lizard or goanna native to Australia, and the fourth-largest living lizard on earth, after the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor, and the crocodile monitor.

New!!: Squamata and Perentie · See more »

Phrynosomatinae

The Phrynosomatinae are a diverse subfamily of lizards, sometimes classified as a separate family (Phrynosomatidae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada.

New!!: Squamata and Phrynosomatinae · See more »

Phyllodactylidae

The Phyllodactylidae are a family of geckos (Gekkota) consisting of approximately 113 species, distributed throughout the New World, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

New!!: Squamata and Phyllodactylidae · See more »

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

New!!: Squamata and Phylogenetics · See more »

Pleurodonta

Pleurodonta (from Greek lateral teeth, in reference to the position of the teeth on the jaw) is one of the two subdivisions of Iguania, the other being Acrodonta (teeth on the top). Pleurodonta includes all families previously split from Iguanidae sensu lato (Corytophanidae, Crotaphytidae, Hoplocercidae, Opluridae, Polychrotidae, etc.), whereas Acrodonta includes Agamidae and Chamaeleonidae.

New!!: Squamata and Pleurodonta · See more »

Plumed basilisk

The plumed basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons), also called commonly the green basilisk, the double crested basilisk, or the Jesus Christ lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae.

New!!: Squamata and Plumed basilisk · See more »

Polychrotinae

The Polychrotinae subfamily (sometimes classified as the Polychrotidae family instead) of iguanian lizards contains the living genus Polychrus (commonly called bush anoles) and the extinct genus Afairiguana.

New!!: Squamata and Polychrotinae · See more »

Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

New!!: Squamata and Predation · See more »

Proteome

The proteome is the entire set of proteins that is, or can be, expressed by a genome, cell, tissue, or organism at a certain time.

New!!: Squamata and Proteome · See more »

Pseudoxenodontinae

Pseudoxenodontinae is a small subfamily of colubrid snakes found in southern and southeastern Asia, from northeast India to southern China (including Taiwan) and south into Indonesia as far east as Wallace's Line.

New!!: Squamata and Pseudoxenodontinae · See more »

Purch Group

Purch Group, Inc. formerly known as TechMediaNetworks, Inc.

New!!: Squamata and Purch Group · See more »

Pygopodidae

Pygopodidae (commonly known as legless lizards, snake-lizards, or flap-footed lizards) is a family of squamates with reduced or absent limbs, and are a type of gecko.

New!!: Squamata and Pygopodidae · See more »

Pythonidae

The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python (πυθων), are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

New!!: Squamata and Pythonidae · See more »

Quadrate bone

The quadrate bone is part of a skull in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids.

New!!: Squamata and Quadrate bone · See more »

Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

New!!: Squamata and Reptile · See more »

Rhineuridae

Rhineuridae is a family of amphisbaenians (commonly called worm lizards) that includes one living genus and species, Rhineura floridana, as well as many extinct species belonging to both Rhineura and several extinct genera.

New!!: Squamata and Rhineuridae · See more »

Rhynchocephalia

Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species of tuatara, which in turn has two subspecies (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus and Sphenodon punctatus guntheri), which only inhabit parts of New Zealand.

New!!: Squamata and Rhynchocephalia · See more »

Robert Hoffstetter

Robert Julien Hoffstetter (11 June 1908 – 29 December 1999) was a taxonomist who was influential in categorizing reptiles.

New!!: Squamata and Robert Hoffstetter · See more »

Round Island burrowing boa

The Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata) at.

New!!: Squamata and Round Island burrowing boa · See more »

Saurischia

Saurischia (meaning "reptile-hipped" from the Greek (σαῦρος) meaning 'lizard' and (ἴσχιον) meaning 'hip joint') is one of the two basic divisions of dinosaurs (the other being Ornithischia).

New!!: Squamata and Saurischia · See more »

Scale (anatomy)

In most biological nomenclature, a scale (Greek λεπίς lepis, Latin squama) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection.

New!!: Squamata and Scale (anatomy) · See more »

Scincomorpha

Scincomorpha is an infraorder of lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Scincomorpha · See more »

Scolecophidia

The Scolecophidia, commonly knowns as blind snakes or thread snakes, are an infraorder of snakes.

New!!: Squamata and Scolecophidia · See more »

Sexual selection

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).

New!!: Squamata and Sexual selection · See more »

Shinisauria

Shinisauria is a clade or evolutionary grouping of anguimorph lizards that includes the living Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus and several of its closest extinct relatives.

New!!: Squamata and Shinisauria · See more »

Shinisauridae

Shinisauridae is a family of anguimorph lizards whose only living representative is the Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus) from China and Vietnam, but which also includes the extinct genus Bahndwivici from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming in the United States.

New!!: Squamata and Shinisauridae · See more »

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

New!!: Squamata and Simon & Schuster · See more »

Sister group

A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

New!!: Squamata and Sister group · See more »

Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae and the infraorder Scincomorpha.

New!!: Squamata and Skink · See more »

Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

New!!: Squamata and Snake · See more »

Snake skeleton

A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.

New!!: Squamata and Snake skeleton · See more »

Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

New!!: Squamata and Species · See more »

Sperm

Sperm is the male reproductive cell and is derived from the Greek word (σπέρμα) sperma (meaning "seed").

New!!: Squamata and Sperm · See more »

Sphaerodactylidae

The Sphaerodactylidae are a family of geckos distributed in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and into Central Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Sphaerodactylidae · See more »

Sphaerodactylus ariasae

Sphaerodactylus ariasae, commonly called the Jaragua sphaero or the Jaragua dwarf gecko, is a very small species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae.

New!!: Squamata and Sphaerodactylus ariasae · See more »

Sudan plated lizard

Sudan plated lizard (Gerrhosaurus major), also known as the Western plated lizard, great plated lizard or rough-scaled plated Lizard is a lizard of the Gerrhosauridae family.

New!!: Squamata and Sudan plated lizard · See more »

Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

New!!: Squamata and Taxon · See more »

Teiidae

Teiidae is a family of autarchoglossan lizards native to the Americas.

New!!: Squamata and Teiidae · See more »

Toxicofera

Toxicofera (Greek for "those who bear toxins") is a proposed clade of scaled reptiles (squamates) that includes the Serpentes (snakes), Anguimorpha (monitor lizards, gila monster, and alligator lizards) and Iguania (iguanas, agamas, and chameleons).

New!!: Squamata and Toxicofera · See more »

Trachyboa

Trachyboa is a genus of nonvenomous dwarf boas endemic to Central and South America.

New!!: Squamata and Trachyboa · See more »

Trogonophidae

Trogonophidae (Palearctic worm lizards or desert ringed lizards) is a small family of amphisbaenians, containing five species in four genera.

New!!: Squamata and Trogonophidae · See more »

Tropidophiidae

The Tropidophiidae, common name dwarf boas or thunder snakes, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found from Mexico and the West Indies south to southeastern Brazil.

New!!: Squamata and Tropidophiidae · See more »

Tropidurinae

The Tropidurinae are a subfamily of iguanid lizards.

New!!: Squamata and Tropidurinae · See more »

Tuatara

Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand.

New!!: Squamata and Tuatara · See more »

Typhlopidae

The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes.

New!!: Squamata and Typhlopidae · See more »

Typhlops vermicularis

Typhlops vermicularis, the European blind snake or European worm snake, is a species of snake in the genus Typhlops. Despite its common name, the range of the European blind snake ranges from the Balkan Peninsula, the Aegean Islands, and Cyprus to Afghanistan.

New!!: Squamata and Typhlops vermicularis · See more »

Underwoodisaurus milii

Underwoodisaurus milii is a species of gecko in the family Carphodactylidae.

New!!: Squamata and Underwoodisaurus milii · See more »

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System.

New!!: Squamata and University of Alabama · See more »

Uropeltidae

The Uropeltidae are a family of primitive, nonvenomous, burrowing snakes endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka.

New!!: Squamata and Uropeltidae · See more »

Uropeltis ceylanica

Uropeltis ceylanica is a nonvenomous shield tail snake species found in southern India.

New!!: Squamata and Uropeltis ceylanica · See more »

Varanidae

The Varanidae are a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea.

New!!: Squamata and Varanidae · See more »

Varanoidea

Varanoidea is a superfamily of lizards, including the well-known family Varanidae (the monitors or goanna).

New!!: Squamata and Varanoidea · See more »

Veiled chameleon

The veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) is a species of chameleon native to the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

New!!: Squamata and Veiled chameleon · See more »

Vertebrate

Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).

New!!: Squamata and Vertebrate · See more »

Vipera aspis

Vipera aspis is a venomous viper species found in southwestern Europe.

New!!: Squamata and Vipera aspis · See more »

Viperidae

The Viperidae (vipers) is a family of venomous snakes found in most parts of the world, excluding Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, Hawaii, various other isolated islands, and north of the Arctic Circle.

New!!: Squamata and Viperidae · See more »

Viviparity

Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the parent, eventually leading to live birth, as opposed to reproduction by laying eggs that complete their incubation outside the parental body.

New!!: Squamata and Viviparity · See more »

Western blue-tongued lizard

The western blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua occipitalis), also known as the western blue-tongued skink, is a large skink native to Australia.

New!!: Squamata and Western blue-tongued lizard · See more »

X-ray microtomography

X-ray microtomography, like tomography and x-ray computed tomography, uses x-rays to create cross-sections of a physical object that can be used to recreate a virtual model (3D model) without destroying the original object.

New!!: Squamata and X-ray microtomography · See more »

Xenodermidae

Xenodermidae is a family of snakes from South, Southeast, and East Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Xenodermidae · See more »

Xenopeltis

Xenopeltis is the genus of sunbeam snakes, of the monotypic family Xenopeltidae, the species of which are found in Southeast Asia.

New!!: Squamata and Xenopeltis · See more »

Xenopeltis unicolor

Xenopeltis unicolor is a non-venomous sunbeam snake species found in Southeast Asia and some regions of Indonesia.

New!!: Squamata and Xenopeltis unicolor · See more »

Xenophidion

Xenophidion is a genus of snakes and the only genus of the monotypic family Xenophidiidae.

New!!: Squamata and Xenophidion · See more »

Xenosauridae

Xenosauridae is a family of anguimorph lizards whose only living representative is the genus Xenosaurus, which is native to Central America.

New!!: Squamata and Xenosauridae · See more »

Xenotyphlops

Xenotyphlops is a genus of snakes, the only genus of the family Xenotyphlopidae, comprising two species found only in Madagascar.

New!!: Squamata and Xenotyphlops · See more »

Xenotyphlops grandidieri

Xenotyphlops grandidieri is a species of blind snake endemic to Madagascar.

New!!: Squamata and Xenotyphlops grandidieri · See more »

Year

A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.

New!!: Squamata and Year · See more »

Zygote

A zygote (from Greek ζυγωτός zygōtos "joined" or "yoked", from ζυγοῦν zygoun "to join" or "to yoke") is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.

New!!: Squamata and Zygote · See more »

Redirects here:

Order Squamata, Scaled reptile, Scaled reptiles, Squamate, Squamates.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamata

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »