List of reptiles

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Skin of a sand lizard, showing squamate reptiles iconic scales Lacertae skin.jpg
Skin of a sand lizard, showing squamate reptiles iconic scales
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A white-headed dwarf gecko with shed tail

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class 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.

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The following list of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by family, spanning two subclasses. Reptile here is taken in its traditional (paraphyletic) sense, and thus birds are not included (although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense).

Subclass/informal group Anapsida

Order Testudinesturtles

Subclass Diapsida

Superorder Lepidosauria

Order Sphenodontia – tuatara

Order Squamata – scaled reptiles

Division Archosauria

Superorder Crocodylomorpha

Order Crocodyliacrocodilians

Clade Dinosauria – dinosaurs

See also

References

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