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Taxonomy
Anguinae was named by Gray (1825). It was considered polyphyletic by Sullivan (1987).
It was corrected as Anguininae by McDowell and Bogert (1954).
It was assigned to Anguinidae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); and to Anguidae by Kuhn (1966), Meszoely (1970), Estes (1976), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
It was corrected as Anguininae by McDowell and Bogert (1954).
It was assigned to Anguinidae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); and to Anguidae by Kuhn (1966), Meszoely (1970), Estes (1976), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Anguinae Gray |
| 1954 | Anguininae McDowell and Bogert p. 130 |
| 1966 | Anguinae Kuhn p. 54 |
| 1970 | Anguinae Meszoely p. 119 |
| 1976 | Anguinae Estes p. 509 |
| 1983 | Anguinae Estes |
| 1987 | Anguinae Sullivan p. 118 |
| 2014 | Anguinae Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 573 |
| 2015 | Anguinae Cernansky et al. p. 106 |
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Subfm. †Anguinae Gray 1825
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Tr. †Anguini Augé 2005
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G. Dopasia Gray 1853
G. Pseudopus Merrem 1820 [legless lizard]
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†Pseudopus ahnikoviensis Klembara 2012
Pseudopus apodus Pallas 1775 [European glass lizard]
†Pseudopus confertus Klembara and Rummel 2018
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Invalid names: Pseudopus rugosus Klembara 2015 [replaced]
†Pseudopus moguntinus Boettger 1875
†Pseudopus pannonicus Kormos 1911
G. Anguis Linnaeus 1758 [slow worm]
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Anguis fragilis Linneaus 1758 [Slow worm]
†Anguis polgardiensis Bolkay 1913
†Anguis rarus Klembara and Rummel 2018
†Anguis stammeri Brunner 1954
G. †Ophipseudopus Kuhn 1940
Tr. †Ophisaurini Augé 2005
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G. Ophisaurus Daudin 1803 [glass lizard]
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†Ophisaurus acuminatus Jorg 1965
Ophisaurus apodus Pallas 1775 [Armored glass lizard]
Ophisaurus attenuatus Cope 1880 [Slender glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus canadensis Holman 1970
Ophisaurus compressus Cope 1900 [island glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus feifari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus harti Boulenger 1899 [Hart's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus holeci Klembara 2015
Ophisaurus koellikeri Gunther 1873 [Koelliker's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus robustus Klembara 1979
†Ophisaurus roqueprunensis Auge 1992
†Ophisaurus spinari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus ventralis Linnaeus 1766 [eastern glass lizard]
Invalid names: Propseudopus Hilgendorf 1883 [synonym]
G. †Parophisaurus Sullivan 1987
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†Parophisaurus mccloskeyi Weems 1999
†Parophisaurus pawneensis Gilmore 1928
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. B. McDowell and C. M. Bogert 1954 | Head with large and regularly arranged osteoderms and scutes; frontal with concave lateral border; osteoderms tranversely eliptical, imbricate, but without special articular surfaces, very thin and more or les vacuolate; teeth recurved, minutely grooved, and fang-like; anterior border of palatine in advance of the posterior extremity of the vomer and the anterior extremity of the interpterygoid vacuity; no lateral fold. |