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Varanoidea
Varanoidea
is a
superfamily
of
lizards
, including the well-known family
Varanidae
(the monitors or
goanna
). Also included in the Varanoidea are such
extinct
marine and semi-
aquatic
forms as
mosasaurs
and dolichosaurs, the venomous
helodermatid
s (
Gila monsters
and
beaded lizards
), the Lanthanotidae (
earless monitor lizards
), and the extinct Necrosauridae.
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