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Taxon: Family Scincidae Oppel, 1811 - skinks (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Squamata

Subsequent entries

Cyclodina (Genus) Girard, 1857 Ref: C. Girard, 1857: 195.
Oligosoma (Genus) Girard, 1857 Ref: C. Girard, 1857: 196.

Current position

Scincoidea (Superfamily) Oppel, 1811 Ref: S.B. Hedges, 2014: 333.

Alternative positions

Lacertilia (Suborder) Owen, 1842 Ref: M. Böhme, 2010: 20.
Leptoglossa (Infraorder) Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 617.
Scincoidea ([unranked]) Oppel, 1811 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: fig. 1.
Scincoidea (Infraorder) Oppel, 1811 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: fig. 1. [implicit]
Scincomorpha (Infraorder) Camp, 1923 Ref: H.-P. Schultze et al., 1985: [1].

Historical positions

Scincoidea (Superfamily) Oppel, 1811 Ref: S.B. Hedges, 2014: 333, fig. 1.
Scincoidea ([unranked]) Oppel, 1811 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: 46, fig. 1.
Lacertilia (Suborder) Owen, 1842 Ref: M. Böhme, 2010: 20.
Scincoidea (Superfamily) Oppel, 1811 Ref: N. Vidal & S.B. Hedges, 2009: 134, fig. 2.
Sauria (Suborder) McCartney, 1802 Ref: 1998
Scincomorpha (Infraorder) Camp, 1923 Ref: P. Uetz, [1995-]1996: 30 Dec 1996.
Sauria (Suborder) McCartney, 1802 Ref: 1995
Leptoglossa (Infraorder) Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 617.
Scincomorpha (Infraorder) Camp, 1923 Ref: H.-P. Schultze et al., 1985: [1], 34.
Scincomorpha (Infraorder) Camp, 1923 Ref: W.E. Duellman, 1982: 961.
Sauria (Suborder) McCartney, 1802 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Scincomorpha (Infraorder) Camp, 1923 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 32g;280s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 2 Jan 2017 [32g;280s]
2013 R.A. Pyron et al.: 46 [133g]
[1995-]2000 P. Uetz 1,247s
1982 W.E. Duellman: 961 4sf;[85g];>1000[1029]s
1979 T.I. Storer et al. >1,000s
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