The Cryptodira (Greek: hidden neck) are a suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles. Cryptodira differ from Pleurodira (side-necked...
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divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There...
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Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira. The division between these two suborders represents a very deep evolutionary...
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in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to...
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Testudinoidea is a superfamily within the suborder Cryptodira of the order Testudines. It includes the pond turtles (Family: Emydidae), Asian turtles (Family:...
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treated as a suborder sister to Cryptodira, they were then thought to be a very primitive lineage inside the Cryptodira according to the most common use...
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(although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense). Suborder Cryptodira Family Chelydridae – common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle...
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List of reptiles of the Canary Islands is an incomplete list of reptiles found in the Canary Islands. This list includes both endemic and introduced species...
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List of reptile genera (section Suborder Cryptodira)
List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...
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Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Chelonioidea Genus: †Kimurachelys Brinkman et. al., 2015...
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