Reptilia

See also: reptilia

Translingual

Etymology

Derived from Latin reptilis (“creeping”)

Proper noun

Reptilia

A taxonomic class within the phylum Chordata – reptiles.[1]

Hypernyms

(class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass[1]

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[1]

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

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

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