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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 ...
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).
Pages in category "Lizard families" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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]
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 largest legless lizard this family is the common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus) with a length of 70 cm (28 in), [129] a SVL of 24 cm (9.4 in) [130] with a weight of 225.95 g (7.970 oz) [131] and also the largest legless lizard in Australia [129] and biggest in the world overall, if don't counts some members the family Anguidae.
Pages in category "Lizards" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.