Gekkonomorpha
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| Gekko gecko, a species used to define Gekkonomorpha | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Gekkonomorpha Fürbringer, 1900 |
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Gekkonomorpha or Pan-Gekkota is a clade of lizards that includes geckos and their closest relatives. Although it was first named in 1900, Gekkonomorpha was not widely used as a formal taxon until it was given a phylogenetic definition in the 1990s.[1] Under this definition, Gekkonomorpha is a stem-based taxon containing the node-based taxon Gekkota, the group that includes the last common ancestor of all living geckos and its descendants. The extent of Gekkonomorpha beyond gekkotans differs between studies.[2] For example, Lee (1998) defined Gekkonomorpha in such a way that it included not only Gekkota but the legless amphisbaenian and dibamid lizards as well.[2][3] The phylogenetic analysis of Conrad (2008), which did not support a close relationship between geckos and legless lizards, used Gekkonomorpha in a much more restrictive sense so that it included only Gekkota and a few extinct lizards more closely related to Gekkota than to any other living group of lizards (making them stem-gekkotans).[1] Gobekko has been recovered within and outside of Gekkonomorpha.[2][4]
References
- 1 2 Conrad, J. L. (2008). "Phylogeny and Systematics of Squamata (Reptilia) Based on Morphology" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 310: 1–182. doi:10.1206/310.1. hdl:2246/5915. S2CID 85271610.
- 1 2 3 Daza, J. D.; Bauer, A. M.; Snively, E. (2013). "Gobekko cretacicus (Reptilia: Squamata) and its bearing on the interpretation of gekkotan affinities". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 430. doi:10.1111/zoj.12012.
- ↑ Lee, M. S. Y. (1998). "Convergent evolution and character correlation in burrowing reptiles: Towards a resolution of squamate relationships". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 65 (4): 369–453. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb01148.x.
- ↑ Daza, J. D.; Alifanov, V. R.; Bauer, A. M. (2012). "A redescription and phylogenetic reinterpretation of the fossil lizard Hoburogekko suchanovi Alifanov, 1989 (Squamata, Gekkota), from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (6): 1303. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32.1303D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.702706. S2CID 84817594.