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reptile
📅 Updated:2026-07-12
🕒 Created:2011-07-01
🆔 ID:1834
Description
"Reptiles":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile][sup](Reptilia)[/sup] are a extant class of cold-blooded "vertebrate":[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate] animals characterized by fully scaled bodies and is the first class of animal that exclusively use internal lungs for respiration. All reptiles develop their young from shelled eggs that are then layed, through some species of snakes are live-born from the body.
Reptiles descend from the first land dwelling amphibian tetrapoda that developed shelled eggs with fully developed young known as amniotes more than 300 million years ago.
Reptiles descend from the first land dwelling amphibian tetrapoda that developed shelled eggs with fully developed young known as amniotes more than 300 million years ago.
- See scalie for fictional and mythological reptile-like species, as well as prehistoric intermediate reptilemorphic species.
Contemporary reptile species groups:
- "Reptile taxonomy tree map":[https://cdn.britannica.com/68/113468-004-7450934B.jpg]
- Reptilia
- [...]
- Archelosauria
- Crurotarsi
- Testudine [sub]~ separate as anapsid in some research definitions.[/sub]
- Turtle -> box turtle, softshell turtle, tortoise, etc.
- Lepidosauria
- Archelosauria
- [...]
Major animal classes (or phylums):
- "Taxonomic tree of life":[https://evogeneao.s3.amazonaws.com/images/tree_of_life/tree-of-life_2000.png]
- Amphibian
- Annelid
- Aquatic (informal)
- Arthropod
- Avian (informal)
- Bird
- Cnidarian
- Echinoderm
- Fish
- Mammal
- Mollusk
- Platyhelminthes (flatworm)
- Porifera (sea sponge)
- Reptile
- Scalie (informal)
See also:
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- Random background low detail figures that are simply there to liven up empty space. Do not tag with any species.
- Ambient reptile
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