Reptilia
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See also: reptilia
Translingual
Etymology
Derived from Latin reptilis (“creeping”)
Proper noun
Reptilia
Hypernyms
- (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass
Hyponyms
- (class): Parareptilia (includes turtles and tortoises), Eureptilia (includes all other extant reptiles) - clades
- (class (per Ruggiero et al)): Aves (birds), Squamata (lizards and snakes), Crocodylomorpha (crocodiles etc), Rhynchocephalia (extinct, except for tuataras), Testudinata (turtles etc) - subclasses
Coordinate terms
- (class): Synapsidomorpha (includes mammals and mammal-like reptiles) - clade
References
Reptilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Reptilia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Reptilia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Reptilia at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248