Reptile Families

The taxonomic families of the reptiles: the crocodilians, the turtles and tortoises, the lizards, the snakes, and the tuatara's own lineage. Covers every family-rank taxon entity in this atlas identified by its own sourced description as belonging to one of the living reptilian orders under the standard herpetological classification ITIS and the Catalogue of Life both follow, from the large snake families such as Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae and the many small blind-snake and pipe-snake families through the lizard families such as Scincidae, Gekkonidae and Varanidae and the turtle families such as Testudinidae, Emydidae and Cheloniidae. A large family by real-world count in this atlas's current catalog, since the sample of family-rank taxa worked in this pass happened to include many snake and lizard lineages; every described living reptile family in this atlas belongs here.