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Anniella pulchra, the California legless lizard, is a limbless, burrowing lizard often mistaken for a snake. Description. Anniella pulchra, Los Osos, CA.
Anniella stebbinsi, the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, [1] [2] is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless. [3] Not much is known about the lizard as a unique species, with most observations conducted while it was not recognised as separate from Anniella pulchra, the Californian legless lizard.
The family Anniellidae, known as American legless lizards, contains six species in a single genus Anniella: A. pulchra (California legless lizard), the rare A. geronimensis (Baja California legless lizard), and four more discovered in 2013.
Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds of wasps and a legless lizard.
Anniellidae – comprising the single genus Anniella, which contains six legless lizards that inhabit central / southern California and Baja California, Mexico. Ophiodes – a genus of legless lizard native to South America, nested within the otherwise legged galliwasps (Diploglossidae).
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How to tell a glass lizard from a snake. There are several physical characteristics that differentiate snakes and legless lizards: Glass lizards in North Carolina have ear openings on the sides of ...
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