Reptiles
Reptilia
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.
6 branches of this class, most-observed first · about 12,385 known species
Snakes and Lizards
orderSquamata
Turtles and Tortoises
orderTestudines
Crocodilians
orderCrocodylia
Rhynchocephalians
orderRhynchocephalia
Sauropterygians
subclassSauropterygia
Pterosaurs
orderPterosauria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 26036.