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| Iguanomorpha Temporal range:
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| Leiocephalus personatus, a species of iguanian | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Toxicofera |
| Clade: | Iguanomorpha Sukhanov, 1961 |
| Suborder: | Iguania Cope, 1864 |
| Subgroups | |
Iguania is an infraorder of squamate reptiles that includes iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and New World lizards like anoles and phrynosomatids. Using morphological features as a guide to evolutionary relationships, the Iguania are believed to form the sister group to the remainder of the Squamata,[1] which comprise nearly 11,000 named species, roughly 2000 of which are iguanians. However, molecular information has placed Iguania well within the Squamata as sister taxa to the Anguimorpha and closely related to snakes.[2] The order has been under debate and revisions after being classified by Charles Lewis Camp in 1923 due to difficulties finding adequate synapomorphic morphological characteristics.[3] Most iguanians are arboreal but there are several terrestrial groups. They usually have primitive fleshy, non-prehensile tongues, although the tongue is highly modified in chameleons.[citation needed] Today they are scattered occurring in Madagascar, the Fiji and Friendly Islands and Western Hemisphere.[4]
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- ^ Daza, Juan D.; Abdala, Virginia; Arias, J. Salvador; García-López, Daniel; Ortiz, Pablo (2012). "Cladistic Analysis of Iguania and a Fossil Lizard from the Late Pliocene of Northwestern Argentina". Journal of Herpetology. 46 (1): 104–119. doi:10.1670/10-112. hdl:11336/61054. JSTOR 41515023. S2CID 85405843.
- ^ Moody, Scott M. (June 1985). "Charles L. Camp and His 1923 Classification of Lizards: An Early Cladist?". Systematic Zoology. 34 (2): 216–222. doi:10.2307/2413329. JSTOR 2413329.