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Helodermatidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Helodermatidae was named by Gray (1837). It is extant. Its type is Heloderma.
It was corrected as Helodermidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1946), Frank and Ramus (1996).
It was assigned to Diploglossa by Cope (1871), Cope (1875); to Helodermatoidea by Baur (1890); to Lacertae by Gadow (1898); to Lacertidi by Perrier (1928); to Anguioidae by Hay (1930); to Anguoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Varanoidea by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Estes et al. (1988), Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Gao and Fox (1996); to Lacertilia by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Monstersauria by Norell and Gao (1997); and to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001).
It was corrected as Helodermidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1946), Frank and Ramus (1996).
It was assigned to Diploglossa by Cope (1871), Cope (1875); to Helodermatoidea by Baur (1890); to Lacertae by Gadow (1898); to Lacertidi by Perrier (1928); to Anguioidae by Hay (1930); to Anguoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Varanoidea by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Estes et al. (1988), Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Gao and Fox (1996); to Lacertilia by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Monstersauria by Norell and Gao (1997); and to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001).