Serpentes

See also: serpentes and serpentés

Translingual

Etymology

Latin serpens (“snake”)

Proper noun

Serpentes

The snakes
1. A taxonomic suborder within the order Squamata.
2. A taxonomic order within the class Reptilia.^[1]

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptilia - class; Squamata - subclass^[1]

Hyponyms

(suborder): Booidea, Colubroidea, Typhlopoidea
(order): Booidea, Elapoidea, Colubroidea, Viperoidea - superfamilies

References

Serpentes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Serpentes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Serpentes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Squamata at the Tree of Life Web Project
Serpentes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Serpentes on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Serpentes at World Register of Marine Species

1 2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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