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American Legless Lizard
The family Anniellidae, known as American legless lizards, contains six species in a single genus ''Anniella'': ''A. pulchra'', the California legless lizard, the rare ''A. geronimensis'', Baja California legless lizard, and four more discovered in 2013. Classification The following species of ''Anniella'' are recognized: * ''Anniella alexanderae'' Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – Temblor legless lizard * ''Anniella campi'' Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – southern Sierra legless lizard * ''Anniella geronimensis'' Shaw, 1940 – Baja California legless lizard * ''Anniella grinnelli'' Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – Bakersfield legless lizard * ''Anniella pulchra'' Gray 1852 – California legless lizard * ''Anniella stebbinsi'' Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – southern California legless lizard See also *Glass lizard References External links * Anniella Legless lizards Lizards of North America Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Pulchra
''Anniella pulchra'', the California legless lizard, is a Legless lizard, limbless, burrowing lizard often mistaken for a snake. Description These lizards are around long from snout to vent (not including tail). They have small, smooth scales typically colored silvery above and yellow below, although black or dark brown forms exist in Monterey County, California which were thought to be a separate subspecies at one point. Taxonomy There were formerly two subspecies of California legless lizard recognized based on individual color morphs: the silvery legless lizard, ''A. p. pulchra'', and the black legless lizard, ''A. p. nigra''. However, contemporary taxonomy considers them simply a melanistic morph. More recently (in 2013), ''A. pulchra'' has been split up into five different species: ''A. pulchra'' (with a narrower definition), ''Anniella alexanderae, A. alexanderae'', ''Anniella campi, A. campi'', ''Anniella grinnelli, A. grinnelli'', and ''Anniella stebbinsi, A. stebbinsi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the British Museum in London. In 1880, he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum, then a department of the British Museum, by Dr. Albert C. L. G. Günther a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology. He began his zoologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legless Lizard
Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion.Pough ''et al.'' 1992. Herpetology: Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall:Pearson Education, Inc., 2002. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are often distinguishable from 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). Many families of lizards have independently evolved limblessness or greatly reduced limbs (which are presumably non-functional in locomotion), including the following examples: * Anguidae – 102 species, of which 17 are limbless and in the genera ''Ophisaurus'', ''Pseudopus'' and '' Anguis'' from Eurasia and North America. * Cordyli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Alexanderae
''Anniella alexanderae'', also known as the temblor legless lizard, is a species of legless lizard found in California, References Anniella Reptiles described in 2013 Lizards of North America Fauna of California Taxa named by Theodore Johnstone Papenfuss {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Campi
''Anniella campi'', also known as the Southern Sierra legless lizard is a species of legless lizard found in California, specifically in the Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ... It was previously known as ''Anniella pulchra''. It has double dark lateral stripes. References Anniella Reptiles described in 2013 Lizards of North America Fauna of California Taxa named by Theodore Johnstone Papenfuss {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Geronimensis
''Anniella geronimensis'', also known as the Baja California legless lizard, is a species of legless lizard found in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... References Anniella Reptiles described in 1940 Lizards of North America Fauna of Mexico {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Grinnelli
''Anniella grinnelli'', also known as the Bakersfield legless lizard, is a species of legless lizard Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion.Pough ''et al.'' 1992. Herpetology: Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall:Pearson Education ... found in California, References Anniella Reptiles described in 2013 Lizards of North America Fauna of California Taxa named by Theodore Johnstone Papenfuss {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anniella Stebbinsi
''Anniella stebbinsi'', the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless. 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. Etymology The specific name ''stebbinsi'' honors Robert C. Stebbins, an American herpetologist. Description The Southern California legless lizard is small and slender, with no legs, a shovel-shaped snout, smooth shiny scales, and a blunt tail. On close observation, eyelids are also present, making clear that the species are lizards and not snakes. Its dorsum is light olive-brown, with strong yellow sides, and its ventral colour is moderate yellow. It also has a black mid-dorsal stripe with the length of less than one scale wide that stretches from the parietals to the tip of the tail, and multiple black stripes that are one scale wide from the eye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legless Lizards
Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion.Pough ''et al.'' 1992. Herpetology: Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall:Pearson Education, Inc., 2002. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are often distinguishable from 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). Many families of lizards have independently evolved limblessness or greatly reduced limbs (which are presumably non-functional in locomotion), including the following examples: * Anguidae – 102 species, of which 17 are limbless and in the genera ''Ophisaurus'', ''Pseudopus'' and ''Anguis'' from Eurasia and North America. * Cordylid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
