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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, comprise the proposed "venom clade" Toxicofera of all venomous reptiles.1
Taxonomy
- Infraorder Anguimorpha
References
- ^ Fry, B. et al. (February 2006). "Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes" (PDF). Nature 439: 584–588. doi:, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7076/abs/nature04328.html.
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