Legless lizard

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snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids, possessing external ear openings, lack of broad belly scales, notched rather than forked tongue, having two more-or-less-equal lungs, and/or having a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail).[1]

Many

limblessness or greatly reduced limbs (which are presumably non-functional in locomotion), including the following examples:[1]

See also

  • Limbless vertebrates

References

  1. ^ a b c Pough et al. 1992. Herpetology: Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall:Pearson Education, Inc., 2002.
  2. ^ .