List of reptiles
List of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by family, spanning three subclasses.
Subclass Anapsida
Order Testudines - turtles
- Suborder Cryptodira
- Family Chelydridae - common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle
- 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
Subclass Diapsida
Superorder Lepidosauria
Order Sphenodontia - tuataras
- Family Sphenodontidae
Order Squamata - scaled reptiles
- Family Agamidae - agamas
- Family Chamaeleonidae - chameleons
- 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 - geckos
- 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 - warless Monitor lizards
- Family Varanidae - monitor lizards
- Suborder Amphisbaenia
- Family Amphisbaenidae - worm Lizards
- Family Trogonophidae - shorthead Worm Lizards
- Family Bipedidae - two-legged Worm Lizards
- 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
- Subyfamily Xenodermatinae
- Subyfamily Homalopsinae
- Subyfamily Boodontinae
- Subyfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae
- Subyfamily Colubrinae
- Subyfamily Psammophiinae
- Subyfamily Natricinae
- Subyfamily Pseudoxenodontinae
- Subyfamily Dipsadinae
- Subyfamily Xenodontinae
- 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
- Subyfamily Azemiopinae - Fae's viper
- Subyfamily Causinae - night adders
- Subyfamily Crotalinae - pitvipers, rattlesnakes
- Subyfamily Viperinae - true vipers
- Family Xenopeltidae - sunbeam snakes
- 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 - gavials
See also
- Reptile
- List of California amphibians and reptiles
- List of regional reptiles lists
- List of snakes
- Herping
External links
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.