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Welcome to Order Squamata!

Reptilia - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Class Reptilia

(From Wikipedia) Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles.

FACT: Venom in reptiles has been determined to have originated in an ancestral squamate, which then differentiated into all the known venomous reptiles!

Currently discovered: 2/3 Suborders

Suborder

  1. Sauria - Lizards
  2. Serpentes - Snakes