Anguimorpha

Anguis +‎ -morpha

Anguimorpha

1. A taxonomic suborder within the order Squamata – lizards and closely related squamates closer to monitors and slow worms than to skinks.

• See Anguimorpha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for cladograms reflecting recent molecular and morphological data.

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida – subclass; Lepidosauromorpha – infraclass; Lepidosauria – superorder; Squamata – order

• (order): Paleoanguimorpha, Neoanguimorpha – infraorders
  • Shinisauridae (crocodile lizards), Lanthanotidae (earless monitors), Varanidae (monitor lizards); Helodermatidae (beaded lizards), Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards), Anniellidae (American legless lizards), Anguidae (glass lizards, alligator lizards) – families

• Toxicofera

• Anguimorpha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anguimorpha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Squamata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Anguimorpha available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• Anguimorpha at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
• Anguimorpha at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Anguimorpha”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI