What is Amphisbaenia?
{{Taxobox | name = Worm lizards | fossil_range = [[Cretaceous]] - Recent | image = Amphisbaenia_1.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = A worm lizard | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Reptile|Sauropsida]] | ordo = [[Squamata]] | subordo = '''Amphisbaenia''' | subordo_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1844}} '''Amphisbaenia''' are a [[suborder]] of [[Squamata]]. Amphisbaenians have features that link them to both [[lizard]]s and [[snake]]s, but they have enough of their own features to be a separate suborder. Amphisbaenians can live both above and below the ground. There are four families, made up of 18 [[genera]], and about 160 [[species]]. == Famililes == * [[Amphisbaenidae]] * [[Bipedidae]] * [[Rhineuridae]] * [[Trogonphidae]] {{wikispecies|Amphisbaenia}} {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[category:Scaled reptiles]]