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16, 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. |
Brachymeles is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae). 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
It is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae which seems to be paraphyletic however. In Biological classification, family ( Latin Scincinae are a subfamily of six genera of Skinks The systematics is at times controversial Apparently part of a clade which does not seem to include the type genus Scincus, it will probably be eventually assigned to a new, yet-to-be-named subfamily. A clade is a taxonomic group comprising a single Common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor In biology a type is that which fixes a name to a Taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question a type may be a specimen Scincus is a Genus of Skinks ( family Scincidae All three species are typical desert inhabitants living in sandy and dune-like areas with (Austin & Arnold 2006)
Species
- Brachymeles apus
- Brachymeles bicolor
- Brachymeles bonitae
- Brachymeles boulengeri
- Brachymeles cebuensis
- Brachymeles elerae
- Brachymeles gracilis
- Brachymeles hilong
- Brachymeles minimus
- Brachymeles pathfinderi
- Brachymeles samarensis
- Brachymeles schadenbergi
- Brachymeles talinis
- Brachymeles tridactylus
- Brachymeles vermis
- Brachymeles wrighti
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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