Amphisbaenia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Worm lizards Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
A worm lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Amphisbaenia Gray, 1844

Amphisbaenia are a suborder of Squamata.

Amphisbaenians have features that link them to both lizards and snakes, but they have enough of their own features to be a separate suborder. Amphisbaenians can live both above and below the ground.

There are four families, made up of 18 genera, and about 160 species.

• Amphisbaenidae
• Bipedidae
• Rhineuridae
• Trogonphidae

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