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I don't know if the worst part of this is how nerdy it is, or how awful it looks because I did it in paint.
I assumed that the wyverns in Monster Hunter were derived from dromaeosaurid dinosaurs like Velociraptor, due to the appearance of the clearly rather primitive Raptorial Bird Wyverns (shown here as the 'Lophoraptoridae' family) and then tried to make a phylogenetic tree to link all the different types together. I don't know if I did a phylogenetic tree correctly, but I'm quite happy with the family and genus names I invented for this.
As you can see, Bird Wyverns and Flying Wyverns have been split into multiple taxa, Leviathans are counted as 'wyverns' while I've excluded Piscine Wyverns (into which I'm including Gobul and Nibelsnarf), which I think would be more closely related to Amphibians. I've split the Snake Wyverns, Najarala being counted as a basal hydrosaur, and Remobra being a draconid, if it even belongs in this group and isn't a squamate or something totally unrelated. I'm really unsure what to do with Khezu and Gigginox, but I think if anything they'd be within the Amphibian-Piscine Wyvern clade more than the true wyvern clade, due to their lack of typically reptilian features. I think everything else would be found where you'd expect it to be.
As I said, pretty nerdy and ultimately pretty pointless, but it was kind of fun and got me thinking about phylogeny and stuff, so it was sort of productive? Not really?

Description
I don't know if the worst part of this is how nerdy it is, or how awful it looks because I did it in paint.
I assumed that the wyverns in Monster Hunter were derived from dromaeosaurid dinosaurs like Velociraptor, due to the appearance of the clearly rather primitive Raptorial Bird Wyverns (shown here as the 'Lophoraptoridae' family) and then tried to make a phylogenetic tree to link all the different types together. I don't know if I did a phylogenetic tree correctly, but I'm quite happy with the family and genus names I invented for this.
As you can see, Bird Wyverns and Flying Wyverns have been split into multiple taxa, Leviathans are counted as 'wyverns' while I've excluded Piscine Wyverns (into which I'm including Gobul and Nibelsnarf), which I think would be more closely related to Amphibians. I've split the Snake Wyverns, Najarala being counted as a basal hydrosaur, and Remobra being a draconid, if it even belongs in this group and isn't a squamate or something totally unrelated. I'm really unsure what to do with Khezu and Gigginox, but I think if anything they'd be within the Amphibian-Piscine Wyvern clade more than the true wyvern clade, due to their lack of typically reptilian features. I think everything else would be found where you'd expect it to be.
As I said, pretty nerdy and ultimately pretty pointless, but it was kind of fun and got me thinking about phylogeny and stuff, so it was sort of productive? Not really?