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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are tetrapod vertebrate animals with an ectothermic metabolism and amniotic development. Reptiles traditionally comprise four orders: Testudines (turtles), Crocodilia (crocodiles, alligators and gharials), Squamata (lizards and snakes) and Rhynchocephalia (tuatara), with about 12,000 extant species listed in the Reptile…

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Reptile

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related to Classical taxonomy and research · 32
Reptile → Amphibia, Batracia, Beauvais, Dicynodon, Europe, French, Haeckel, He, Hunterian, Huxley, Ichthyopsida, III, In, It, Latin, Latreille, Latreille's, Laurenti, Linnaeus, Mirror
related to Taxonomy · 24
Reptile → AllokotosauriaArchosauriformes, Araeoscelidia, Archosauromorpha, Avemetatarsalia/Ornithodira, Aves, Choristodera, Diapsida/Neodiapsida, Drepanosauromorpha, General, Ichthyosauromorpha, Kuehneosauridae, OrnithischiaSaurischia, Pantestudines, Parareptilia, PhytosauriaArchosauriaPseudosuchiaCrocodilia, Protorosauria, PterosauriaDinosauria, Rhynchosauria, Sauria/ Reptilia, Sauropsida/ Reptilia
related to Permian reptiles · 22
Reptile → Carboniferous, Dimetrodon, Early Permian, Edaphosaurus, Europe, In, Late Permian, Many, Mesosaurus, Middle-Late Permian, Neodiapsida, One, Permian, Protorosaurus, Sauria, South America, Southern Africa, The, The Weigeltisauridae, While
related to Anapsids, synapsids, diapsids, and sauropsids · 17
Reptile → All, Araeoscelidia, Carboniferous-early Permian, Diapsida, Historically, It, Later, Neodiapsida, Parareptilia, Reptilia, Soon, Synapsida, The, These, This, Turtles, Very
related to Reproduction · 17
Reptile → All, Among, An, Early Permian, In, It, Mesozoic, Most, Plesiosauria, Reptiles, Sauropterygia, Several, The, There, This, Tuatara, Viviparity
related to Cenozoic reptiles · 16
Reptile → After, Approximately, Cenozoic, Cretaceous, However, K-T, Lazarussuchus, Mammals, Mesozoic, Miocene, Of, Paleogene, Pg, Squamates, The, This
related to Mesozoic reptiles · 15
Reptile → Age, Archosauromorpha, Archosaurs, Cretaceous, Different, In, Lepidosauromorpha, Mesozoic, Most, Permian, Reptiles, Since, The, These, Triassic
related to Rise of the reptiles · 15
Reptile → Age, Amniotes, Carboniferous, Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, Cochleosaurus, First Age, From, Mesozoic, Permian, Primitive, Reptiles, The, They, This, Thus
related to Respiratory system · 14
Reptile → All, Aquatic, Because, Crocodilians, Even, In, Lung, On, Some, Tegu, The, This, Varanids, While
related to External links · 12
Reptile → Archived, Biology, Data, December, Encyclopædia Britannica, Herpetology, Reptiles, Reptilia, Sri Lanka, Wikibooks, WikispeciesReptilia, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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reptiles turtles snakes birds lizards species mammals crocodilians also many reptilia group snake clade amniotes animals body dinosaurs amphibians used

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the monitor lizard-like Protorosaurus known from the Late Permian of Europeinstance ofas evidenced by species0.80text
which is clearly an archosauromorphinstance ofas evidenced by species0.80text
more closely related to archosaursinstance ofas evidenced by species0.80text
remote islandsinstance ofSuch adaptations are the result of environments0.80text
deserts where water is very scarceinstance ofSuch adaptations are the result of environments0.80text
Mixcoatlinstance offorms part of primary deities0.80text
Quetzalcoatlinstance offorms part of primary deities0.80text
and Coatlicueinstance offorms part of primary deities0.80text
shoesinstance ofTheir hides are tanned and used to make leather goods0.80text
handbagsinstance ofTheir hides are tanned and used to make leather goods0.80text
the ball pythoninstance ofespecially relatively docile species0.80text
corn snakeinstance ofespecially relatively docile species0.80text

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