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The 18 pages that link to Lizard, each with the reason it gives.

• SquamataBroader topic: They make up the largest and most varied lineage within Squamata.

• SnakeCompared with: Lizards are snakes’ closest familiar relatives, but many retain features snakes lack.

• ReptileBroader topic: Lizards include the familiar small-bodied forms as well as legless lineages.

• Jacobson's organBroader topic: Many lizards sample chemical cues with the tongue and process them through this organ.

• EctothermBroader topic: Many lizards combine basking and shade seeking to maintain suitable temperatures.

• TuataraCompared with: Tuatara resemble lizards but belong to a separate reptile order.

• GeckoNarrower topic: Geckos are lizards, but their distinctive traits set them apart from many other lineages.

• ScincidaeNarrower topic: Skinks are lizards, though some lineages have reduced or lost their limbs.

• VaranidaeNarrower topic: Monitor lizards share the basic body plan of lizards but have distinctive family traits.

• IguanidaeNarrower topic: Iguanids are one family within the broader lizard grouping.

• LacertidaeNarrower topic: Lacertids are lizards, with the group’s typical body plan and evolutionary history.

• Legless lizardNarrower topic: Legless lizards retain lizard anatomy despite losing or reducing their limbs.

• MegalaniaNarrower topic: Megalania was a lizard with the distinctive scale-covered body plan.

• TeiidaeNarrower topic: Teiids are lizards, though their family has distinctive anatomy and behavior.

• Mediterranean house geckoNarrower topic: This broader reptile group provides the taxonomic context for identification.

• Viviparous lizardNarrower topic: The viviparous lizard is one small-bodied member of this broad reptile group.

• CordylidaeNarrower topic: Cordylids are lizards, sharing the group’s basic body plan and evolutionary ancestry.

• DallasaurusCompared with: Dallasaurus retained limb and skeletal features associated with land-capable lizard relatives.