Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Latin plural of
reptilium . - In zoology:
- (a ) In Linnæus's system of classification (1766), the first order of the third class Amphibia, including turtles, lizards, and frogs. See
Amphibia , 2 . - A class of cold-blooded oviparous or ovoviviparous vertebrated animals whose skin is covered with scales or scutes; the reptiles proper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
reptilium . - noun Plural form of
reptilian . (Animals of the classReptilia )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals
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Examples
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Aves are descendants of reptiles, but they are excluded from reptilia, so reptilia is not a clade.
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ID guy: But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - reptilia is a clade and it includes aves. and it includes aves.
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But the traditional class reptilia is not a clade.
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But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - reptilia is a clade and it includes aves.
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But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - reptilia is a clade and it includes aves.
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I never said anything about aves being "nested in reptilia."
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The wiki diagram that ID guy linked to is misleading in that it places reptilia in the position where one might normally find the clade sauropsida, and indicates that reptilia is a monophyletic group.
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That might be a cladists view of how the nomenclature should be applied, but tradition holds that reptilia does not include aves and so is not a clade.
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Tom MH: The wiki diagram that ID guy linked to is misleading in that it places reptilia in the position where one might normally find the clade sauropsida, and indicates that reptilia is a monophyletic group.
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Dixit quoque Deus: Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta, et reptilia, et bestias terræ secundum species suas.
Snakes in the water and other discoveries Prof. de Breeze 2008
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