Alternative spelling: Urodeles
Full reference: A. M. C. Duméril. 1805. Zoologie Analytique, ou Méthode Naturelle de Classification des Animaux, Rendue plus Facile à l’Aide de Tableaux Synoptiques 1-344
Parent taxon: Caudata according to J. D. Gardner 2001
See also Averianov and Voronkevich 2002, Böhme 2008, Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Dundee 1989, Estes 1964, Evans and Milner 1996, Gadow 1898, Gao and Shubin 2001, Gao and Shubin 2003, Gardiner 1982, Gauthier et al. 1989, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Huene 1954, Jaekel 1911, Jia and Gao 2016, Jia and Gao 2019, Kuhn 1946, Säve-Söderbergh 1934, Swinton 1934, Wang 2000 and Zhang et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Amphiumoidea, Apricosiren, Batrachosauroididae, Bishara, Comonecturoides, Comonecturoides marshi, Egoria, Galverpeton, Heteroclitotriton, Hylaeobatrachus, Karauridae, Karauroidea, Kulgeriherpeton, Marmorerpeton, Noterpetontidae, Pancryptobrancha, Plethodontoidea, Prosirenoidea, Ramonellus, Triassuridae, Urupia
Subtaxa: Ambystomatoidea Amphiumidae Cryptobranchoidea Hemitrypus Hynobiidae Iridotriton Kiyatriton Laccotriton Liaoxitriton Meantes Menopomidae Neocaudata Nesovtriton Nezpercius Plethodontidae Pleurodelidae Polysemia Proteidae Rhyacotritonidae Salamandra Salamandridae Salamandroidea Seminobatrachus Sinerpeton Sirenidae Thoriidae Valdotriton
Ecology: amphibious carnivore