Diploglossa is a clade of neoanguimorphs represented by the families Xenosauridae, Diploglossidae, Anniellidae and Anguidae, the latter three placed in the superfamily Anguioidea.[1][2][3][4] In the past the Chinese crocodile lizard was classified as a xenosaurid;[5] current molecular work has shown evidence the species related to varanoids in the clade Paleoanguimorpha.[1][2][6]
Below is the phylogeny of the neoanguimorph lineages after Pyron et al. (2013):[2]
Diploglossa
Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards)
Anguioidea
Diploglossidae (galliwasps)
Anniellidae (American legless lizards)
Anguidae (glass lizards and alligator lizards)
^ abVidal, Nicolas; Hedges, S. Blair (2009). "The molecular evolutionary tree of lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 332 (2–3): 129–39. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2008.07.010. PMID 19281946. S2CID 23137302. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
^ abcPyron; Burbrink; Wiens (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 93. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
^Zheng, Yuchi; Wiens, John J. (2016). "Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt B): 537–547. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.009. PMID 26475614.
^Wiens, J. J.; Hutter, C. R.; Mulcahy, D. G.; Noonan, B. P.; Townsend, T. M.; Sites, J. W.; Reeder, T. W. (2012). "Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species". Biology Letters. 8 (6): 1043–6. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0703. PMC 3497141. PMID 22993238.
^Gao, K.; Norell, M. (1998). "Taxonomic revision of Carusia (Reptilia, Squamata) from the late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert and phylogenetic relationships of anguimorphan lizards". American Museum Novitates (3230): 1–55. hdl:2246/3367.
^Bhullar, B. A. S. (2011). "The power and utility of morphological characters in systematics: a fully resolved phylogeny of Xenosaurus and its fossil relatives (Squamata: Anguimorpha)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 160 (3): 65–181. doi:10.3099/0027-4100-160.3.65. S2CID 86328454.
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anguimorphs comprising Monstersauria (represented today by helodermatids) and Diploglossa (Xenosauridae and Anguioidea). Morphological studies in the past had...
and whiptails) Family Gymnophthalmidae (spectacled lizards) Infraorder Diploglossa Family Anguidae (slowworms, glass lizards) Family Anniellidae (American...
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squamates. There are five infraorders which separate the lizards, these are: Diploglossa, Gekkota, Iguania, Platynota and Scincomorpha. This separation is based...
Characters of the higher Groups of REPTILIA SQUAMATA—and especially of the DIPLOGLOSSA". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1864: 224–231. (Pletholax, new genus...
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