Squamata
scaled reptiles

Squamata can be characterized by the reduction or loss of limbs.

The most diverse group is Squamata, also known as the snakes and lizards.

A few species within Squamata have the ability to reproduce asexually.

This formation is common in the order Squamata.

The order squamata is further broken down into a suborder including lizards and snakes.

Alternatively, they and the snakes are the Order Squamata.

The common name of Percina squamata is the olive darter.

It is a member of the order Squamata and the family Agamidae.

The Latin specific epithet squamata means small, scale-like leaves.

They form the family Scincidae, in the order Squamata.

In the traditional taxonomy the Order Squamata is divided as follows:

Amphisbaenia are reptiles, in the third suborder of Squamata.

Rinorea squamata is a species of plant in the Violaceae family.

The Squamata does not include the Tuataras from New Zealand.

A modern view is that the snakes and lizards are all infraorders of the Squamata:

According to newer genetic research, Dibamidae was the first Squamata group to branch off from the order.

Synanthedon squamata is a moth of the Sesiidae family.

This allows a new growth of healthy skin ("New world encyclopedia: Squamata," 2008).

New world encyclopedia: Squamata (2008).

The group Squamata includes snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians.

Scaled reptiles are the lizards, snakes and slowworms that make up the order known as the Squamata.

Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes.

Male iguanas, as well as other male members of the order Squamata, have three hemipenes.

The larvae feed on Rinorea squamata.

The Lorica squamata was a type of scale armour used during the Republic and at later periods.

In scaled reptiles, the ocular scales are those forming the margin of the eye.

Their true slaad forms are green, very large, scaled reptiles, with powerful legs, long claws, and sharp teeth.

The labial scales are the scales of snakes and other scaled reptiles that border the mouth opening.

The mental scale, or mental, in snakes and other scaled reptiles refers to the median plate on the tip of the lower jaw.

In scaled reptiles, supraocular scales are (enlarged) scales on the crown immediately above the eye.

Scaled reptiles are the lizards, snakes and slowworms that make up the order known as the Squamata.

Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes.

Order Squamata (the scaled reptiles)

The G. abbotti belongs to the order squamata consisting of scaled reptiles with supple mandible structures.

Stocky, eight-legged, crimson scaled reptiles with a row of spines jutting down the length of their back and eyes that glow ghostly blue.

The cecal valves, which occur in less than 1 percent of all known species of scaled reptiles, have been described as an "evolutionary novelty, a brand new feature not present in the ancestral population and newly evolved in these lizards".