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Amphisbaenoidea (disused)
Taxonomy
Amphisbaenoidea was named by Gray (1865). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Kearney (2003).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Amphisbaenoidea by Kearney (2003).
It was assigned to Amphisbaenia by Kearney (2003).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Amphisbaenoidea by Kearney (2003).
It was assigned to Amphisbaenia by Kearney (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Amphisbaenoidea Kearney |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Unr. Amphisbaenoidea Gray 1865
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Kearney 2003 | "Absence of cephalic scale fusion, an interdigitating nasofrontal suture, and a slight craniofacial angle. (pg. 49)" |
Measurements
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| Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Pianka and Vitt 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available