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Legless lizard
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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Common name for a lizard without obvious legs
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]
scheltopusik
.
Cordylidae
– an African family of 66 species, with one virtually legless genus
Chamaesaura
, containing five species with hindlimbs reduced to small scaly protuberances.
Gekkota, which also contains six families of
geckos
.
Anelytropsis and the Southeast Asian genus
Dibamus
. All are limbless burrowers that are nearly or completely blind.
Anniella, which contains six legless lizards that inhabit central / southern
California
and
Baja California
, Mexico.
galliwasps
.
neotropical family containing many species with reduced limbs, the most extreme being the 23 species in the genus
Bachia
, which escape by making sudden
saltatory
"figure-8" flicks with the body and tail.
Scincidae – commonly known as skinks, the largest lizard family with over 1500 species, of which many are limbless and nearly-limbless species, including (but not confined to) the genera
Acontias
,
Feylinia
,
Melanoseps
,
Paracontias
,
Scelotes
and
Typhlosaurus
from Africa,
Lerista
,
Ophioscincus
,
Coeranoscincus
and
Anomalopus
from Australia, and some species in the genera
Chalcides
from southern Europe and North Africa.
Amphisbaenia
- comprising over 180 extant species, most of which are legless.
See also
Limbless vertebrates
References
Look up
legless lizard
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
^
a
b
c
Pough
et al.
1992. Herpetology: Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall:Pearson Education, Inc., 2002.
^
ISBN
978-1-920694-74-6
.