Anguimorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scleroglossa
Infraorder:	Anguimorpha Fürbringer, 1900

Anguimorphs of the infraorder Anguimorpha include the anguids (alligator lizards, glass lizards, galliwasps and legless lizards), monitor lizards, mosasaurs, and helodermatids (Gila monster and beaded lizard). The infraorder was named by Fürbringer in 1900 to include all autarchoglossans closer to Varanus and Anguis than Scincus. These lizards, along with iguanians and snakes, constitute the proposed "venom clade" Toxicofera of all venomous reptiles.^[1]

[edit] Taxonomy

• Infraorder Anguimorpha
  • †Eolacerta robusta
  • †Paravaranus angustifrons
  • Varanoidea (Platynota)
    • Varanidae
    • Lanthanotidae
    • Helodermatidae
    • †Mosasauridae
  • Anguoidea (= Diploglossa)
    • Anguidae
    • Anniellidae
    • Xenosauridae

[edit] References

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