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2, see text. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia are air-breathing Cold-blooded Vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers In Phylogenetics, a group of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if the group contains its most recent common ancestor but does not contain all Sauria is a Clade of reptiles that includes all living Diapsids as well as their Common ancestor and all its extinct descendants Squamata (scaled reptiles is the largest recent order of Reptiles including Lizards and Snakes Members of the order are distinguished by In Phylogenetics, a group of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if the group contains its most recent common ancestor but does not contain all Scincomorpha is an Infraorder of Saurians Skinks are the most diverse group of Lizards They make the family Scincidae which shares the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha with several other In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. |
Ateuchosaurus is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae) containing only 2 species. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Skinks are the most diverse group of Lizards They make the family Scincidae which shares the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha with several other In Biological classification, family ( Latin In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. It is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae. In Biological classification, family ( Latin Scincinae are a subfamily of six genera of Skinks The systematics is at times controversial This group seems to be paraphyletic however, and the present genus is apparently not closely related to most or all of them. Rather, it seems to be slightly closer to Acontias; it might either belong into the Acontinae or, as it seems to be quite distinct from Acontias too, into a not yet established novel and perhaps monotypic subfamily; more research is clearly required. Acontias, the lance skinks, is a Genus of limbless Skinks ( family Scincidae) from Africa Monotypic is an adjective that refers to a taxonomic group with only one type: In Botany, "monotypic" means that a Taxon has only (Austin & Arnold 2006)
Species
- Ateuchosaurus chinensis
- Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus
References
- Austin, J. J. & Arnold, E. N. (2006): Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 503–511. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 (HTML abstract)
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