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| | ADW: Tropiduridae: Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Until recently, almost 1,000 species, including those in Tropiduridae, were placed in Iguanidae (sensu lato), but Frost and Etheridge's (1989) analysis of iguanian systematics suggested eight monophyletic clades within that large family. |
 | | Among the eight families of Iguanidae sensu lato, which includes Tropiduridae, relationships are not resolved, although several hypotheses posit that tropidurids are closely related to phrynosomatids, oplurids, and perhaps polychrotids. |
 | | Within Tropiduridae, the subfamilies Tropidurinae and Leiocephalinae are sister taxa, and Liolaeminae is basal. |
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