This was not the only possible classification scheme: In the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863, Huxley grouped the vertebrates into mammals, sauroids, and ichthyoids (the latter containing the fishes and amphibians).
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti je prvi uradno uporabil izraz "Reptilia" za razširjen izbor plazilcev in dvoživk, ki je v osnovi podoben Linnaeusovem izboru.