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Varanoidea
Taxonomy
Varanoidea was named by Gray (1827). Its type is Varanus. It was considered monophyletic by Lee and Caldwell (2000), Conrad (2006).
It was synonymized subjectively with Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); it was reranked as the unranked clade Varanoidea by Comaschi Caria (1957).
It was assigned to Anguimorpha by Camp (1923); to Squamata by Comaschi Caria (1957); to Diploglossa by Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001); to Platynota by Baur (1890), Estes (1964), Welles and Gregg (1971), Conrad (2006), Norell et al. (2007); to Anguimorpha by Antunes (1964), Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Stritzke (1983), Gao and Fox (1996), Páramo-Fonseca (2000), Houssaye et al. (2013); to Reptilia by Houssaye et al. (2013); and to Squamata by Lee and Caldwell (2000), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); it was reranked as the unranked clade Varanoidea by Comaschi Caria (1957).
It was assigned to Anguimorpha by Camp (1923); to Squamata by Comaschi Caria (1957); to Diploglossa by Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001); to Platynota by Baur (1890), Estes (1964), Welles and Gregg (1971), Conrad (2006), Norell et al. (2007); to Anguimorpha by Antunes (1964), Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Stritzke (1983), Gao and Fox (1996), Páramo-Fonseca (2000), Houssaye et al. (2013); to Reptilia by Houssaye et al. (2013); and to Squamata by Lee and Caldwell (2000), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2020).