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Diploglossa
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<p>Diploglossa is a clade of <a href="/facts/Neoanguimorpha/myYY1cn4">neoanguimorphs</a> represented by the families <a href="/facts/Xenosauridae/bxr66vqP">Xenosauridae</a>, <a href="/facts/Diploglossidae/HjgIkVJk">Diploglossidae</a>, <a href="/facts/Anniellidae/fSzqTjMk">Anniellidae</a> and <a href="/facts/Anguidae/mksRDdpo">Anguidae</a>, the latter three placed in the superfamily Anguioidea. In the past the <a href="/facts/Chinese_crocodile_lizard/lN0sN7h0">Chinese crocodile lizard</a> was classified as a xenosaurid; current molecular work has shown evidence the species related to varanoids in the clade <a href="/facts/Paleoanguimorpha/gL1NwVGK">Paleoanguimorpha</a>. </p><p>Below is the phylogeny of the neoanguimorph lineages after Pyron <i>et al.</i> (2013): </p> <table><tbody><tr><td>Diploglossa</td><td rowspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td rowspan="2"><p><a href="/facts/Xenosauridae/bxr66vqP">Xenosauridae</a> (knob-scaled lizards)</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td>Anguioidea</td><td rowspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td rowspan="2"><p><a href="/facts/Diploglossidae/HjgIkVJk">Diploglossidae</a> (galliwasps)</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td rowspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td rowspan="2"><p><a href="/facts/Anniellidae/fSzqTjMk">Anniellidae</a> (American legless lizards)</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td rowspan="2"><p><a href="/facts/Anguidae/mksRDdpo">Anguidae</a> (glass lizards and alligator lizards)</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table>