Agamids and kin, cladogram 1 (Patreon)

A long article on mastigures is about ready for Tet Zoo, and a few cladograms have been produced. As usual, these are also going to be used in The Big Book. Here's one of at least two variants I want to use. This cladogram - based on the work of Honda et al. (2000) - has mastigures and butterfly agamas outside a clade that contains chameleons and remaining groups traditionally united within Agamidae. 

I think it looks pretty good. I also need to add a Physignathus (water dragon). The squamate section of The Big Book is going to be awesome I think. Oh, here's an alternative cladogram -- this one depicting the topology recovered by Pyron et al. (2013)...

This one is more conventional in that chameleons are outside of Agamidae. For more discussion and thoughts on what this all means, check out the Tet Zoo article.. which should be online today.

Thanks as always for the support - I've had to take on a curatorial position at a museum and am once again being prevented from doing things like the Eotyrannus  mono   --------------------------- I cannot see the text because a popupo box rthat appeared over what I'm typing right now!!!