RE: Genealogy of Scaly Reptiles Rewritten by New Research

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> Datum: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:53:05 -0800 (PST)

>   Unidentata [...] (Uniovidentata may be too long or two-vowely
> for the authors).

It happens to also be too two-vowelly for Latin -- when two vowels 
collide, the first one usually has to go. So that would be Unovidentata. 
Or, better yet, Singulovidentata...

> Episquamata, the "top squamates".

Really? I mean, the paper says so, but doesn't "epi-" mean "above"?

>   Episquamata is diphyletic, split between the "venom-bearers"
> Toxicofera (which includes iguanians plus Anguimorpha, and snakes),
> and Laterata, named for the "lateral" tile-shaped scales in
> amphisbaenians, teioids, and lacertoid lizards

So you mean it consists of two smaller clades -- rather than being 
diphyletic, which is a specification of "polyphyletic"?

> (some of which have also been shown to be venom-bearers by Fry).

Really? :-o

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