Anguimorpha sunt infraordo Squamatorum corpore oblongo anguino, inter quae Varanidae maxima lacertilia, Helodermatidae dente venenifero, Anguidae simillima Serpentibus.
Nomen mixtura ambarum linguarum classicarum est, scilicet Latini anguis et Graeci morphos 'forma'.
Cladogramma
─o Toxicofera Vidal & Hedges, 2005 ├── Pythonomorpha Cope, 1869 → Serpentes Linnaeus, 1758 └─┬── Iguania Cope, 1864 └─o Anguimorpha Fürbringer, 1900 ├─o Paleoanguimorpha │ ├── Shinisauridae │ └─o Varanoidea │ ├── Lanthanotidae │ └── Varanidae Merrem, 1820 └─o Neoanguimorpha ├── Xenosauridae ├── Helodermatidae Wiegmann, 1829 └─o Anguioidea sive Diploglossa ├── Anguidae Gray, 1825 ├── Anniellidae └── Diploglossidae
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