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  2. List of reptiles of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Name Scientific name Order Family Range and status IUCN Red List Common five-lined skink: Plestidon fasciatus: Lizard: Scincidae: Extirpated; formerly Western and Southern Massachusetts (Berkshire and Bristol Counties), but now absent from the Commonwealth due to habitat loss

  3. Anguinae - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Island glass lizard - Wikipedia

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    The Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America". pp. 153–1270 + Plates 1–36. In : Anonymous (1900). Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1898.

  5. Ophisaurus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Basilosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Basilosaurus (meaning "king lizard") is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). ). First described in 1834, it was the first archaeocete and prehistoric whale known to scienc

  7. Eastern glass lizard - Wikipedia

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    Eastern glass lizards are most active during the day and can be found foraging in open habitats but also like to take refuge beneath debris. [16] A study in 2020 found O. ventralis using a crayfish burrow as habitat in southeastern Mississippi. Various invertebrates and vertebrates are known to use these burrows but this is the first time a ...

  8. Lizard - Wikipedia

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    They can be found in elevations from sea level to 5,000 m (16,000 ft). They prefer warmer, tropical climates but are adaptable and can live in all but the most extreme environments. Lizards also exploit a number of habitats; most primarily live on the ground, but others may live in rocks, on trees, underground and even in water.

  9. Lepidosauria - Wikipedia

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    The group Squamata [17] includes snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians. Squamata can be characterized by the reduction or loss of limbs. Snakes and legless lizards have evolved the complete loss of their limbs. The upper jaw of Squamates is movable on the cranium, a configuration called kinesis. [28]