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The sheltopusik [3] / ˌ ʃ ɛ l t ə ˈ p j uː z ɪ k / (Pseudopus apodus), also commonly called Pallas's glass lizard, [4] the European legless lizard, or the European glass lizard, is a species of large glass lizard found from Southern Europe to Central Asia. They are snakes.
Pseudopus is a genus of anguid lizards that are native to Eurasia. [1] One extant species remains, the sheltopusik, [2] with four fossil species. They are the most robust members of subfamily Anguinae. [1] [3] The oldest fossils of the group date to the Early Miocene, but there are possible Oligocene records. [4]
Anguinae is a subfamily of legless lizards in the family Anguidae, commonly called glass lizards, glass snakes or slow worms. The first two names come from the fact their tails easily break or snap off. Members of Anguinae are native to North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Bolosoma stalked glass sponge. Hexactinellid sponges are sponges with a skeleton made of four- and/or six-pointed siliceous spicules, often referred to as glass sponges.They are usually classified along with other sponges in the phylum Porifera, but some researchers consider them sufficiently distinct to deserve their own phylum, Symplasma.
Cutaway diagram of Cloudina showing "living space" within the shell. Cloudina varies in size from a diameter of 0.3 to 6.5 mm, and 8 to 150 mm in length. [ 4 ] Fossils consist of a series of stacked vase-like calcite tubes, whose original mineral composition is unknown, [ 6 ] but inferred to be high-magnesium calcite. [ 7 ]
Slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)Ophisaurus (from the Greek 'snake-lizard') is a genus of superficially snake-like legless lizards in the subfamily Anguinae.Known as joint snakes, glass snakes, or glass lizards, they are so-named because their tails are easily broken; like many lizards, they have the ability to deter predation by dropping off part of the tail, which can break into ...
Most lizard species and some snake species are insectivores. The remaining snake species, tuataras, and amphisbaenians, are carnivores. While some snake species are generalist, others eat a narrow range of prey - for example, Salvadora only eat lizards. [33] The remaining lizards are omnivores and can consume plants or insects. The broad ...
Plesiosauroidea (/ ˈ p l iː s i ə s ɔːr /; Greek: πλησιος plēsios 'near, close to' and σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is an extinct clade of carnivorous marine reptiles.They have the snake-like longest neck to body ratio of any reptile.