Pygopodoidea | |
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Eastern stone gecko ( Diplodactylus vittatus) | |
Pink-tailed worm-lizard ( Aprasia parapulchella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | Gekkonomorpha |
Infraorder: | Gekkota |
Clade: |
Pygopodomorpha Vidal & Hedges, 2009 |
Superfamily: |
Pygopodoidea Gray, 1845 |
Families | |
Pygopodoidea is a gecko superfamily and the only taxon in the gekkotan subclade Pygopodomorpha. The clade includes three Australasian families: Diplodactylidae (stone geckos), Carphodactylidae (knob-tailed geckos), and Pygopodidae (flap-footed geckos). Traditional gekkotan systematics had considered Diplodactylidae and Carphodactylidae as subfamilies of the family Gekkonidae, but recent molecular work have placed Pygopodidae within Gekkonidae making it paraphyletic. [1] These analyses have shown support of Pygopodidae and Carphodactylidae being sister taxa, with Diplodactylidae occupying a basal position in Pygopodoidea. [2] [3] [4]
Below is a taxonomic list of pygopodoid genera in taxonomic order:
Pygopodoidea | |
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Eastern stone gecko ( Diplodactylus vittatus) | |
Pink-tailed worm-lizard ( Aprasia parapulchella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | Gekkonomorpha |
Infraorder: | Gekkota |
Clade: |
Pygopodomorpha Vidal & Hedges, 2009 |
Superfamily: |
Pygopodoidea Gray, 1845 |
Families | |
Pygopodoidea is a gecko superfamily and the only taxon in the gekkotan subclade Pygopodomorpha. The clade includes three Australasian families: Diplodactylidae (stone geckos), Carphodactylidae (knob-tailed geckos), and Pygopodidae (flap-footed geckos). Traditional gekkotan systematics had considered Diplodactylidae and Carphodactylidae as subfamilies of the family Gekkonidae, but recent molecular work have placed Pygopodidae within Gekkonidae making it paraphyletic. [1] These analyses have shown support of Pygopodidae and Carphodactylidae being sister taxa, with Diplodactylidae occupying a basal position in Pygopodoidea. [2] [3] [4]
Below is a taxonomic list of pygopodoid genera in taxonomic order: