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Taxon: Family Sphenodontidae Cope, 1871 - tuataras (reptile)
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Authorship

Original name Cope, 1871. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 19: 235.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Sphenodontinae (Subfamily) Cope, 1871 Ref: O. Kuhn, 1969: 46. [inferred]
TypeSphenodon (Genus) Gray, 1831 Ref: Hoffstetter, 1955. [inferred]

Variants

Clade-based nameSphenodontidae (Clade) Cope 1871 [Simões, Caldwell & Pierce 2020] Ref: D.G. DeMar Jr. et al., 2022: 5. [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHatteriidae (Family) Cope, 1864 Ref: PBDB: 12 Sep 2017.
IncludingMonjurosuchidae (Family) Endo, 1940 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 616. [inferred]
Questionably IncludingPalacrodontidae (Family) Haughton, 1924 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 616. [inferred]
IncludingPolysphenodontidae (Family) Kuhn, 1969 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 616. [inferred]
IncludingSapheosauridae (Family) Baur, 1895 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 616. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namebrughagedissen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nametuataras
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