Scincoidea

Translingual

Etymology

Scincus +‎ -oidea

Proper noun

Scincoidea

1. A taxonomic order within the class Reptilia – the skinks.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Squamata - subclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Cordylidae (girdle-tailed lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), Scincidae (skinks), Xantusiidae (night lizards) - families

References

• Scincomorpha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scincoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Squamata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Scincoidea at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Scinciformata at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Scincoidea at Paleobiology Database
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI