Sphenodon
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Sphenodon (Maorice tuatara[3]) est genus reptilium endemicorum in Nova Zelandia. Quamquam plurimarum lacertarum similes, partes stirpis distinctae sunt, ordinis Rhynchocephalium.[4] Una species Sphenodontis est sola sui ordinis species,[5] qui aevo Triassico abhinc 250 fere millionum ortus,[6][7] aevo Mesozoico vigebat.[8] Maiores communes recentissimi sunt Squamata.[9] Quam ob rem, Sphenodontes in studio evolutionis lacertarum et anguium magni momenti sunt, atque in proprietatubus habitibusque primorum diapsidorum reconstructis, gregis tetrapodorum amniotorum cui etiam sunt dinosauria (cum avibus) et crocodilia.
Sphenodon punctatus punctatus, "tuatara septentrionalis"
Classis : Reptilia
Ordo : Rhynchocephalia
Familia : Sphenodontidae
Genus : Sphenodon
Gray, 1831 (nomen conservatum)
Ordo : Rhynchocephalia
Familia : Sphenodontidae
Genus : Sphenodon
Gray, 1831 (nomen conservatum)
Subdivisiones: Species
* S. punctatus
(Gray, 1842) (conserved name)
(Gray, 1842) (conserved name)
- †S. diversum
Colenso, 1885
Synonyma
* Sphaenodon
Gray, 1831 (rejected name)
Gray, 1831 (rejected name)
- Hatteria
Gray, 1842 (rejected name) - Rhynchocephalus
Owen, 1845 (rejected name)
Species typica
Sphenodon punctatus Gray, 1842
Territorium
Distributio naturalis (Nova Zelandia)