Squamata

Squamata diversity

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Clades (7): Dibamia – Gekkota – Scincomorpha – Laterata – Iguania – Anguimorpha – Serpentes
[circumscription following Burbrink et al. (2020)]
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. 
• 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. 
• 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. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 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. 
• 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

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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