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    The document provides a classification of reptiles including 9547 total species across several subclasses, orders, and families. It notes the major living groups like crocodilians, tuataras, lizards, snakes, and turtles, as well as many extinct reptile lineages from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. Key living reptile groups include crocodilians, tuataras, over 9000 lizard species split between squamates and amphisbaenians, and over 3000 snake species within the alethinophidian infraorder.

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    The document provides a classification of reptiles including 9547 total species across several subclasses, orders, and families. It notes the major living groups like crocodilians, tuataras, lizards, snakes, and turtles, as well as many extinct reptile lineages from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. Key living reptile groups include crocodilians, tuataras, over 9000 lizard species split between squamates and amphisbaenians, and over 3000 snake species within the alethinophidian infraorder.

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    The document provides a classification of reptiles including 9547 total species across several subclasses, orders, and families. It notes the major living groups like crocodilians, tuataras, lizards, snakes, and turtles, as well as many extinct reptile lineages from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. Key living reptile groups include crocodilians, tuataras, over 9000 lizard species split between squamates and amphisbaenians, and over 3000 snake species within the alethinophidian infraorder.

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    CLASS REPTILIA, total 9547 species

    = extinct groups

    Subclass Synapsida
    Order Pelycosauria (many Palaeozoic reptiles, including sail-backs) Order Therapsida (mammal-like reptiles)

    Subclass Diapsida
    Order Araeoscelidia (Palaeozoic lizard analogs) Order Younginiformes (various Permian-Triassic reptiles)

    Infraclass Ichthyosauria (fish lizards) Infraclass Archosauria


    Order Phytosauria (aquatic Triassic crocodile analogs) Order Pterosauria (flying reptiles) Order Rauisuchia (Triassic terrestrial predators) Order Rhynchosauria (beaked Triassic herbivores) Order Crocodylia (crocodilians), 25 species
    Family Alligatoridae (alligators) Family Crocodylidae (crocodiles) Family Gavialidae (gavials)

    Superorder Dinosauria
    Order Ornithischia (herbivorous bird-hipped, armoured, duckbilled & horned dinosaurs) Order Saurischia (sauropods, carnosaurs, raptors)

    Infraclass Lepidosauria
    Order Sphenodontia (tuataras), 2 species

    Family Sphenodontidae Order Squamata (lizards & snakes), 9012 species


    Family Agamidae (agamas) Family Anguidae (glass lizards) Family Anniellidae (American legless lizards) Family Chamaeleonidae (chameleons) Family Cordylidae (spinytail lizards) Family Dibamidae (blind lizards) Family Gekkonidae (geckoes) Family Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards) Family Gymnophthalmidae (spectacled lizards) Family Helodermatidae (Gila monsters) Family Iguanidae (iguanas) Family Lacertidae (lacertids) Family Lanthanotidae (earless monitor lizards) Family Pygopodidae (legless lizards) Family Scincidae (skinks) Family Teiidae (whiptails & tegus) Family Varanidae (monitor lizards) Family Xantusiidae (night lizards) Family Xenosauridae (knob-scaled Lizards)

    Superfamily Mososauroidea (Cretaceous aquatic predators)

    Suborder Amphisbaenia, 181 species


    Family Amphisbaenidae (worm lizards) Family Bipedidae (two-legged worm lizards) Family Trogonophidae (shorthead worm lizards)

    Suborder Serpentes Infraorder Alethinophidia (snakes)


    Family Acrochordidae (wart snakes) Family Aniliidae (false coral snakes) Family Anomochilidae (dwarf pipe snakes) Family Atractaspididae (African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes) Family Boidae (boas) Family Bolyeriidae (Mauritius snakes) Family Colubridae (colubrids, typical snakes) 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, pit vipers) Family Xenopeltidae (sunbeam snakes)

    Infraorder Scolecophidia (blind snakes)


    Family Anomalepididae (primitive blind snakes) Family Leptotyphlopidae (slender blind snakes, thread snakes) Family Typhlopidae (typical blind snakes)

    Superorder Sauropterygia
    Order Nothosauroidea (Triassic amphibious, serpentine reptiles) Order Placodontia (Triassic part-shelled marine reptiles) Order Plesiosauria (plesiosaurs & pliosaurs)

    Subclass Anapsida
    Order Testudines (turtles & tortoises), 327 species Suborder Cryptodira
    Family Carettochelyidae (pignose turtles) Family Chelydridae (common snapping turtles & alligator snapping turtles) Family Cheloniidae (sea turtles) Family Dermatemydidae (river turtles) Family Dermochelyidae (leatherback turtles) Family Emydidae (pond turtles & box turtles) Family Geoemydidae (Asian river turtles & allies) Family Kinosternidae (mud turtles) Family Testudinidae (tortoises) Family Trionychidae (softshell turtles)

    Suborder Pleurodira
    Family Chelidae (Austro-American sideneck turtles) Family Pelomedusidae (Afro-American sideneck turtles) Family Podocnemididae (Madagascan big-headed turtles & American sideneck river turtles)

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