List of reptiles

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.

Skin of a sand lizard, showing squamate reptiles iconic Scales
A white-headed dwarf gecko with shed tail

List of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by family, spanning two subclasses. 'Reptile' here is taken in its traditional (paraphyletic) sense, and thus birds are not included (although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense).

Subclass Anapsida

Order Testudines - turtles
  • Suborder Cryptodira

Subclass Diapsida

Order Sphenodontia - tuataras

Order Squamata - scaled reptiles

Division Archosauria

Superorder Crocodylomorpha

Order Crocodylia - crocodilians

See also
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