Ophidia
Sign in to save__FORCETOC__ Ophidia (also known as Pan-Serpentes) is a group of squamate reptiles including modern snakes and reptiles more closely related to snakes than to other living groups of lizards.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- Q122422
- Parent taxon
- Toxicofera
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- Trimeresurus albolabris male.jpg
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- Evolution
- Origins
- Burrowing lizard hypothesis
- Aquatic lizard hypothesis
- References
__FORCETOC__ Ophidia (also known as Pan-Serpentes) is a group of squamate reptiles including modern snakes and reptiles more closely related to snakes than to other living groups of lizards.
Ophidia was defined as the "most recent common ancestor of Pachyrhachis and Serpentes (modern snakes), and all its descendants" by Lee and Caldwell (1998: 1551).