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  2. List of reptile genera - Wikipedia

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    Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles. With over 10,000 species, [15] Approximate world distribution of snakes. Suborder Anguimorpha. Family Anguidae [16] Genus Abronia; Genus Anguis; Genus Dopasia; Genus Elgaria ...

  3. List of reptiles - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. List of Lacertilia families - Wikipedia

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    Glass lizards: Slowworm (Anguis fragilis) Anniellidae Gray, 1852: American legless lizards: California legless lizard (Anniella pulchra) Xenosauridae Cope, 1866: Knob-scaled lizards: Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) Gekkota: Family Common Names Example Species Example Photo Dibamidae Boulenger, 1884: Blind lizards: Dibamus ...

  5. List of largest extant lizards - Wikipedia

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    They are the largest lizards after some large species of monitor lizards, and the largest lizards in the New World. Iguanas vary considerably in size and form, but even the smallest lizards in this family are still quite large. For example, the desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) can reach a length of up to 61 cm (24 in). [91]

  6. Chameleon - Wikipedia

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    Certain species of chameleons have bones that glow when under ultraviolet light, also known as biogenic fluorescence. [25] Some 31 different species of Calumma chameleons, all native to Madagascar, displayed this fluorescence in CT scans. [54] The bones emitted a bright blue glow and could even shine through the chameleon's four layers of skin ...

  7. Lacertidae - Wikipedia

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    Troodos lizard Phoenicolacerta troodica Terminology and scalation of lacertids. The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia. It is a diverse family with at about 360 species in 39 genera. They represent the dominant group of reptiles found in Europe.

  8. Lizard - Wikipedia

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    Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, [1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other ...

  9. List of largest reptiles - Wikipedia

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    The Komodo dragon is the largest living species of lizard in the world. The largest of the monitor lizards (and the largest extant lizard in genera) is the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), endemic to the island of its name, at a maximum size of 3.13 m (10.3 ft) long and 166 kg (366 lb), although this is currently the only record that places ...