This is a list of extant reptiles by family, spanning three subclasses.

Contents 1 Subclass Anapsida 1.1 Order Testudines - Turtles 2 Subclass Lepidosauria 2.1 Order Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras 2.2 Order Squamata - Scaled reptiles 3 Subclass Archosauria 3.1 Order Crocodylia - Crocodiles 3.2 See also 3.3 Cited references 3.4 External links

Subclass Anapsida

Order Testudines - Turtles

• Suborder Cryptodira
  • Family Chelydridae - Snapping Turtles
    Family Emydidae - Pond Turtles and Box Turtles
    Family Testudinidae - Tortoises
    Family Geoemydidae - Asian River Turtles and Allies
    Family Carettochelyidae - Pignose Turtles
    Family Trionychidae - Softshell Turtles
    Family Dermatemydidae - River Turtles
    Family Kinosternidae - Mud Turtles
    Family Cheloniidae - Sea Turtles
    Family Dermochelyidae - Leatherback Turtles
• Suborder Pleurodira
  • Family Chelidae - Austro-American Sideneck Turtles
    Family Pelomedusidae - Afro-American Sideneck Turtles
    Family Podocnemididae - Madagascan Big-headed Turtles and American Sideneck River Turtles

Subclass Lepidosauria

Order Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras

• Suborder Sphenodontida
  • Family Sphenodontidae

Order Squamata - Scaled reptiles

• Suborder Sauria
  • Family Agamidae - Agamas
  • Family Chamaeleonidae - Chameleons
  • Family Iguanidae
    • Subfamily Corytophaninae - Casquehead Lizard
      Subfamily Crotaphytinae - Collared and Leopard Lizards
      Subfamily Hoplocercinae - Wood lizards
      Subfamily Iguaninae - Iguanas
      Subfamily Leiocephalinae
      Subfamily Leiosaurinae
      Subfamily Liolaeminae
      Subfamily Oplurinae - Madagascar iguanids
      Subfamily Phrynosomatinae - Horned Lizards
      Subfamily Polychrotinae - Anoles
      Subfamily Tropidurinae - Neotropical Ground Lizards
  • Family Gekkonidae - Geckoes
    Family Pygopodidae - Legless lizards
    Family Dibamidae - Blind Lizards
    Family Cordylidae - Spinytail Lizards
    Family Gerrhosauridae - Plated Lizards
    Family Gymnophthalmidae - Spectacled Lizards
    Family Teiidae - Whiptails and Tegus
    Family Lacertidae - Lacertids
    Family Scincidae - Skinks
    Family Xantusiidae - Night Lizards
    Family Anguidae - Glass Lizards
    Family Anniellidae - American legless lizards
    Family Xenosauridae - Knob-scaled Lizards
    Family Helodermatidae - Gila Monsters
    Family Lanthanotidae - Earless Monitor lizards
    Family Varanidae - Monitor Lizards
• Suborder Amphisbaenia
  • Family Amphisbaenidae - Worm Lizards
    Family Trogonophidae - Shorthead Worm Lizards
    Family Bipedidae - Two-legged Worm Lizards
• Suborder Ophidia - Snakes
  • Family Anomalepidae - Dawn Blind Snakes
    Family Typhlopidae - Blind Snakes
    Family Leptotyphlopidae - Slender Blind Snakes
    Family Aniliidae - Pipe Snakes
    Family Anomochilidae - Dwarf pipe snakes
    Family Boidae - Boas and Pythons
    Family Bolyeridae - Round Island Boas
    Family Cylindrophiidae - Asian pipe snakes
    Family Loxocemidae - Mexican Burrowing Pythons
    Family Tropidophiidae - Dwarf boas
    Family Uropeltidae - Shield-tail Snakes
    Family Xenopeltidae - Sunbeam Snakes
    Family Acrochordidae - File Snakes
    Family Atractaspididae - Mole Vipers
    Family Colubridae - Colubrids
    Family Elapidae - Coral Snakes and Sea Snakes
  • Family Viperidae - Vipers^[1]
    • Subfamily Azemiopinae - Fea's viper
      Subfamily Causinae - Night adders
      Subfamily Crotalinae - Pit vipers
      Subfamily Viperinae - Pitless vipers

Subclass Archosauria

Order Crocodylia - Crocodiles

• Suborder Eusuchia
  • Family Crocodylidae

See also

• Reptile

Cited references

1. ^ Viperidae (TSN 174294). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 23 August 2006.

External links

• The EMBL Reptile Database