List of reptiles
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This is a list of extant reptiles by family, spanning three subclasses.
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[edit] Subclass Anapsida
[edit] Order Testudines - Turtles
- Suborder Cryptodira
- Family Chelydridae - Snapping Turtles
- Family Emydidae - Pond Turtles and Box Turtles
- Family Testudinidae - Tortoises
- Family Geoemydidae - Asian River Turtles and Allies
- Family Carettochelyidae - Pignose Turtles
- Family Trionychidae - Softshell Turtles
- Family Dermatemydidae - River Turtles
- Family Kinosternidae - Mud Turtles
- Family Cheloniidae - Sea Turtles
- Family Dermochelyidae - Leatherback Turtles
- Suborder Pleurodira
- Family Chelidae - Austro-American Sideneck Turtles
- Family Pelomedusidae - Afro-American Sideneck Turtles
- Family Podocnemididae - Madagascan Big-headed Turtles and American Sideneck River Turtles
[edit] Subclass Lepidosauria
[edit] Order Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras
- Suborder Sphenodontida
- Family Sphenodontidae
Channel Catfish ((Ictalurus puntatus))
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- Family Iguanidae
- Subfamily Corytophaninae - Casquehead Lizard
- Subfamily Crotaphytinae - Collared and Leopard Lizards
- Subfamily Hoplocercinae - Wood lizards
- Subfamily Iguaninae - Iguanas
- Subfamily Leiocephalinae
- Subfamily Leiosaurinae
- Subfamily Liolaeminae
- Subfamily Oplurinae - Madagascar iguanids
- Subfamily Phrynosomatinae - Horned Lizards
- Subfamily Polychrotinae - Anoles
- Subfamily Tropidurinae - Neotropical Ground Lizards
- Family Gekkonidae - Geckoes
- Family Pygopodidae - Legless lizards
- Family Dibamidae - Blind Lizards
- Family Cordylidae - Spinytail Lizards
- Family Gerrhosauridae - Plated Lizards
- Family Gymnophthalmidae - Spectacled Lizards
- Family Teiidae - Whiptails and Tegus
- Family Lacertidae - Lacertids
- Family Scincidae - Skinks
- Family Xantusiidae - Night Lizards
- Family Anguidae - Glass Lizards
- Family Anniellidae - American legless lizards
- Family Xenosauridae - Knob-scaled Lizards
- Family Helodermatidae - Gila Monsters
- Family Lanthanotidae - Earless Monitor lizards
- Family Varanidae - Monitor Lizards
- Family Iguanidae
- Suborder Amphisbaenia
- Family Amphisbaenidae - Worm Lizards
- Family Trogonophidae - Shorthead Worm Lizards
- Family Bipedidae - Two-legged Worm Lizards
Main article: List of snakes
- Suborder Ophidia - Snakes
- Family Anomalepidae - Dawn Blind Snakes
- Family Typhlopidae - Blind Snakes
- Family Leptotyphlopidae - Slender Blind Snakes
- Family Aniliidae - Pipe Snakes
- Family Anomochilidae - Dwarf pipe snakes
- Family Boidae - Boas and Pythons
- Family Bolyeridae - Round Island Boas
- Family Cylindrophiidae - Asian pipe snakes
- Family Loxocemidae - Mexican Burrowing Pythons
- Family Tropidophiidae - Dwarf boas
- Family Uropeltidae - Shield-tail Snakes
- Family Xenopeltidae - Sunbeam Snakes
- Family Acrochordidae - File Snakes
- Family Atractaspididae - Mole Vipers
- Family Colubridae - Colubrids
- Family Elapidae - Coral Snakes and Sea Snakes
- Family Viperidae - Vipers[1]
- Subfamily Azemiopinae - Fea's viper
- Subfamily Causinae - Night adders
- Subfamily Crotalinae - Pit vipers
- Subfamily Viperinae - Pitless vipers
[edit] Subclass Archosauria
[edit] Order Crocodylia - Crocodiles
- Suborder Eusuchia
- Family Crocodylidae
- Family Akshay Iyengarae
[edit] See also
[edit] Cited references
- ^ Viperidae (TSN 174294). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 23 August 2006.
