- second-largest
order of
extant (living) vertebrates,
after the
perciform fish.
Squamates are
distinguished by
their skins,
which bear
horny scales or shields,...
- hemi**** (pl.: hemipenes) is one of a pair of
intromittent organs of male
squamates (snakes and lizards).
Hemipenes are
usually held
inverted within the body...
- all-female po****tions
reproduce without the
involvement of males, are
found in
squamate reptiles (snakes and lizards).
There are
about 50
species of
lizard and...
-
Lizard is the
common name used for all
squamate reptiles other than
snakes (and to a
lesser extent amphisbaenians), encomp****ing over 7,000 species, ranging...
- The
squamate antbird (Myrmoderus squamosus) is a
species of bird in
subfamily Thamnophilinae of
family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic...
-
Toxicofera (Latin for "toxin-bearers") is a
proposed clade of
scaled reptiles (
squamates) that
includes the
Serpentes (snakes),
Anguimorpha (monitor lizards, beaded...
- crown-
squamates otherwise are
known only from the
Middle Jur****ic onwards,
Cryptovaranoides would push back the
estimated origin of
modern squamates by 35...
-
Mosasauria is a
clade of
aquatic and
semiaquatic squamates that
lived during the
Cretaceous period.
Fossils belonging to the
group have been
found in...
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Iguania is an
infraorder of
squamate reptiles that
includes iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and New
World lizards like
anoles and phrynosomatids.
Using morphological...
- The
Anguimorpha is a
suborder of
squamates. The
group was
named by Fürbringer in 1900 to
include all
autarchoglossans closer to Var**** and
Anguis than...
