| Scleroglossa | |
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| Gold dust day gecko (also known as Madagascar day geckos) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Scleroglossa |
| Infraorders | |
Scleroglossa is the suborder of Squamata (snakes and lizards) that contains the geckos, ananguids, worm lizards monitor lizards, such as helodermatids, skinks and snakes. The name is derived from the Greek, skleros, meaning hard and glossa, meaning tongue.
- Infraorder Amphisbaenia – worm lizards
- Infraorder Anguimorpha – ananguids (alligator lizards, glass lizards, galliwasps and legless lizards), monitor lizards, mosasaurs, and helodermatids (Gila monster and beaded lizard)
- Infraorder Gekkota – (the geckos)
- Infraorder Scincomorpha – (skinks, whiptail lizards and common European lizards)
- Infraorder Serpentes – snakes
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