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Webster 1913 Edition
Reptilia
‖
Rep-til′i-a
(r?p-t?l′?-?)
, Noun.
pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
☞ It is nearly related in many respects to Aves, or birds. The principal existing orders are
Testidunata
or Chelonia
(turtles), Crocodilia
, Lacertilla
(lizards), Ophidia
(serpents), and Rhynchocephala
; the chief extinct orders are Dinosauria
, Theremorpha
, Mosasauria
, Pterosauria
, Plesiosauria
, Ichtyosauria
. Definition 2024
Reptilia
Reptilia
See also: reptilia
Translingual
Proper noun
Reptilia
- The reptiles
- A taxonomic class within the subphylum Vertebrata.
Hypernyms
- (class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Amniota - clade
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
- ↑ 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521