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Diploglossa is a clade of Neoanguimorpha represented by the families Xenosauridae, Diploglossidae, Anniellidae and Anguidae, the latter three placed in the superfamily Anguioidea. In the past the Chinese crocodile lizard was classified as a xenosaurid; current molecular work has shown evidence the species related to varanoids in the clade Paleoanguimorpha.
Below is the phylogeny of the neoanguimorph lineages after Pyron et al. (2013):
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