Testudines

Testudines es un ordine de Sauropsida qui contine 14 familias actual de tortucas. Se distribute in duo subordines secundo le movimento del collo pro proteger le capite in le carapace:

Phylogenia

Secundo Crawford et al. (2012)^[2] e Gemmell et al. (2020)^[3]:

	Rhynchocephalia (Sphenodon)

	Squamata (lacertas e serpentes)

Le phylogenia interne es le sequente:^[4]^[5]

Testudines

Pleurodira

↑ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (2017). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status, 8th, Chelonian Research Monographs (no. 1) 7, Chelonian Research Foundation: Turtle Conservancy, 10, 24. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. OCLC 1124067380.
↑ Crawford, N.G.; Faircloth, B.C.; McCormack, J.E.; Brumfield, R.T.; Winker, K.; Glenn, T.C. More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs. Biol. Lett. 2012, 8, 783–786.
↑ Gemmell, N.J.; Rutherford, K.; Prost, S.; Tollis, M.; Winter, D.; Macey, J.R.; Adelson, D.L.; Suh, A.; Bertozzi, T.; Grau, J.H.; et al. The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution. Nature 2020, 584, 403–409.
↑ "A Phylogenomic Analysis of Turtles" (2015). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 83: 250–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25450099.
↑ "A Global Phylogeny of Turtles Reveals a Burst of Climate-associated Diversification on Continental Margins" (February 8, 2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7). doi:10.1073/pnas.2012215118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 33558231. Bibcode: 2021PNAS..11812215T.