Anguimorpha

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Anguimorpha

Anguimorphs of the infraorder Anguimorpha include the anguids

Anguidae

The Anguidae is a large and diverse family of lizards native to the northern hemisphere. The group includes the slowworms, glass lizards, and alligator lizards, among others....
(alligator lizard

Alligator lizard

Alligator Lizard may refer to one of the following:Species of the genus Elgaria:*Northern Alligator Lizard*Southern Alligator LizardSpecies of the genus Gerrhonotus....
s, glass lizard

Glass lizard

The glass lizards or glass snakes, genus Ophisaurus, are a group of reptiles that resemble snakes, but are actually lizards. Although most species have no legs, their head shape and the fact that they have movable eyelids and external ear openings make it obvious that they are lizards....
s, galliwasps and legless lizard

Legless lizard

Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards which have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion....
s), monitor lizard

Monitor lizard

Monitor lizards or biawak are members of the family Varanidae, a group of carnivorous lizard which includes the heaviest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, with the crocodile monitor being the longest in the world....
s, mosasaur

Mosasaur

Mosasaurs were serpentine marine reptiles. The first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1778. These ferocious marine predators are now considered to be the closest relatives of snakes, due to cladistic analysis of symptomatic similarities in jaw and skull anatomies....
s, and helodermatids

Heloderma

Heloderma, the only genus of the family Helodermatidae, consists of venom lizards native to the southwestern United States, Mexico and as far south as Guatemala....
(Gila monster

Gila monster

The Gila monster , Heloderma suspectum, is a species of venom lizard native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico . A heavy, slow-moving lizard, up to long, the Gila monster is the only venomous lizard native to the United States, and one of only two known species of venomous lizards in North America, the other being its...
and beaded lizard

Beaded lizard

The beaded lizard is a species of venomous lizard found in Guatemala and Mexico. It and its close relative, the Gila monster , are the only venomous lizards in the world....
). The infraorder was named by Fürbringer in 1900 to include all autarchoglossans closer to Varanus and Anguis
Anguis

Although they are lizards, slow worms have lost their limbs completely and are often mistaken for snakes. Slow-worms typically grow to between 40 and 50cm, with the females slightly larger than the males....
than Scincus
Scincus

Scincus is a genus of skinks . All three species are typical desert inhabitants, living in sandy and dune-like areas, with a hot and dry climate....
. These lizards, along with iguania

Iguania

Iguania is the suborder of Squamata that contains the iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and "New World lizards" such as anoles and Phrynosomatidae....
ns and snake

Snake

Snakes are elongate legless carnivore reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears....
s, comprise the proposed "venom clade" Toxicofera

Toxicofera

Toxicofera , is a hypothesis clade which represents about 4600 species of extant taxon squamates It encompasses all Venom reptile species, as well as numerous related non-venomous species....
of all venomous reptiles.

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