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Episquamata

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Episquamata (meaning "top squamates") is a large clade of squamate reptiles erected by Nicolas Vidal and S. Blair Hedges in 2005 on the basis of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The group encompasses the majority of living squamate diversity, including all snakes, iguanian lizards, anguimorph lizards, amphisbaenians, lacertids, teiids, and gymnophthalmids. Episquamata is the sister group of Scincomorpha (or Scinciformata/Scincoidea), and together they form the clade Unidentata, which excludes the basally diverging dibamids and gekkotans.