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Taxon: Class Reptilia Linnaeus, 1758 - reptiles (reptile)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
Original name:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 197.
Subsequent rank: 

Variants

Clade-based name: Reptilia (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Laurin & Reisz 2020] Ref: M. Laurin & R.R. Reisz, 2020: [1027]. [inferred]
Current rank: Reptilia (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1984], nom. cl. inval.
Former rank: Reptiles (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 51). [inferred]
Former unranked name: Reptilia (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1984], nom. cl. inval. Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 51). [inferred]

Homonyms

Allowed homonym: Reptilia (Order) nom. inval.

Synonyms

Including (pro parte): Sauropsida (Class) Huxley, 1864
Including (pro parte): †Synapsida (Class) Osborn, 1903

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: reptielen Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 301.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: reptiles
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