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Lialis
''Lialis'' is a genus of legless lizards in the family Pygopodidae. The genus is native to Australia and New Guinea. Diet Lizards in the genus ''Lialis'' specialize in eating skinks.Patchell F, Shine R (1986). "Feeding Mechanisms in Pygopodid Lizards: How Can Lialis Swallow Such Large Prey?". ''Journal of Herpetology'' 20 (1): 59-64. They have hinged teeth and kinetic skull joints which flex allowing them to swallow their prey whole. Reproduction Lizards in the genus ''Lialis'' exhibit oviparity. Species The following two species are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. *''Lialis burtonis'' *'' Lialis jicari'' References Further reading * Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Pygopodidæ ....'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus ''Lialis'', p. 246). * Gray JE (1835). "Characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burton's Legless Lizard
Burton's legless lizard (''Lialis burtonis'') is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae. The species lacks forelegs and has only rudimentary hind legs. Pygopodid lizards are also referred to as "legless lizards",Bradshaw SD, Gans C, Girons HS (1980). "Behavioural thermoregulation in a pygopodid lizard, ''Lialis burtonis'' ". ''Copeia'' 1980 (4): 738-743. "flap-footed lizards"Wall M, Shine R (2013). "Ecology and behaviour of Burton’s legless lizard (''Lialis burtonis'', Pygopodidae) in tropical Australia". ''Asian Herpetological Research'' 4 (1): 9-21. and "snake-lizards".Weber E, Werner YL (1977). "Vocalisations of two snake-lizards (Reptilia: Sauria: Pygopodidae)". ''Herpetologica'' 33(3): 353-363. This species is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Cogger HG (2000). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia''. Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland. Taxonomy English zoologist John Edward Gray described Burton's legless lizard in 1835. The specific name, ''bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lialis Burtonis
Burton's legless lizard (''Lialis burtonis'') is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Pygopodidae. The species lacks forelegs and has only rudimentary hind legs. Pygopodid lizards are also referred to as "legless lizards",Bradshaw SD, Carl Gans, Gans C, :fr:Hubert Saint Girons, Girons HS (1980). "Behavioural thermoregulation in a pygopodid lizard, ''Lialis burtonis'' ". ''Copeia'' 1980 (4): 738-743. "flap-footed lizards"Wall M, Richard Shine, Shine R (2013). "Ecology and behaviour of Burton’s legless lizard (''Lialis burtonis'', Pygopodidae) in tropical Australia". ''Asian Herpetological Research'' 4 (1): 9-21. and "snake-lizards".Weber E, Yehudah L. Werner, Werner YL (1977). "Vocalisations of two snake-lizards (Reptilia: Sauria: Pygopodidae)". ''Herpetologica'' 33(3): 353-363. This species is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.Harold Cogger, Cogger HG (2000). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia''. Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland. Taxonomy Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lialis
''Lialis'' is a genus of legless lizards in the family Pygopodidae. The genus is native to Australia and New Guinea. Diet Lizards in the genus ''Lialis'' specialize in eating skinks.Patchell F, Shine R (1986). "Feeding Mechanisms in Pygopodid Lizards: How Can Lialis Swallow Such Large Prey?". ''Journal of Herpetology'' 20 (1): 59-64. They have hinged teeth and kinetic skull joints which flex allowing them to swallow their prey whole. Reproduction Lizards in the genus ''Lialis'' exhibit oviparity. Species The following two species are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. *''Lialis burtonis'' *'' Lialis jicari'' References Further reading * Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Pygopodidæ ....'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus ''Lialis'', p. 246). * Gray JE (1835). "Characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lialis Jicari
The Papua snake lizard (''Lialis jicari''), also known commonly as Jicar's snake-lizard, the New Guinea snake-lizard, and the Papua snake-lizard, is a species of legless lizard in the family Pygopodidae. The species is endemic to New Guinea including the Bismarck Archipelago. Etymology The specific name, ''jicari'', is in honor of Mr. A.H. Jiear, a Resident Magistrate in British New Guinea, who presented the holotype to the British Museum (Natural History). Boulenger misread the donor's surname as "Jicar". Habitat ''L. jicari'' is found in a variety of habitats including freshwater wetlands, grassland, shrubland, savanna, and forest, at altitudes from sea level to . Description ''L. jicari'' is limbless. It may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , with a tail length of . It has 22 scales around the middle of the body, seven preanal pores, and six anal scales. de Rooij N (1915). ''The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria''. Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pygopodidae
Pygopodidae, commonly known as legless lizard, legless lizards, snake-lizards, or flap-footed lizards, is a Family (biology), family of squamates with reduced or absent limbs, and are a type of gecko. At least 35 species are placed in two subfamilies and eight Genus, genera. They have unusually long, slender bodies, giving them a strong resemblance to snakes. Like snakes and most geckos, they have no eyelids, but unlike snakes, they have external ear holes and flat, unforked tongues. They are native to Australia and New Guinea. Pygopodids have no fore limbs at all, but they do possess vestigial hind limbs in the form of small, flattened flaps. These may have some role in courtship and defensive behaviour, and may even aid in locomotion through vegetation. Some species are insectivore, insectivorous burrowing animals, but others are adapted to moving through dense Triodia (grass), spinifex or other vegetation. Shared gecko characteristics The pygopodids and other geckos share a num ... [...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] |
Lizard Genera
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia although some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. Most lizards are quadrupedal, running with a strong side-to-side motion. Some lineages (known as "legless lizards"), have secondarily lost their legs, and have long snake-like bodies. Some such as the forest-dwelling ''Draco'' lizards are able to glide. They are often territorial, the males fighting off other males and signalling, often with bright colours, to attract mates and to intimidate rivals. Lizards are mainly carnivorous, often being sit-and-wait predators; many smaller species eat insects, while the Komodo eats mammals as bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...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] |
Richard Shine
Richard Shine (born 7 June 1950) is an Australian evolutionary biologist and ecologist; he has conducted extensive research on reptiles and amphibians, and proposed a novel mechanism for evolutionary change. He is currently a Professor of Biology at Macquarie University, and an Emeritus Professor at The University of Sydney. Early life Rick Shine was born in Brisbane in 1950. He attended schools in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, and completed his university studies at the Australian National University with an Honours degree in zoology in 1971 (supervised by Dr Richard E. Barwick). His PhD was obtained from the University of New England in Armidale, under the supervision of Professor Harold F. Heatwole, and dealt with the field ecology of Australian venomous snakes. It was the first detailed ecological research on these animals. He also began working on broader questions in evolutionary biology, collaboratively with another student, James J. Bull, currently the Johann Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and monotremes. In traditional usage, most insects (one being ''Culex pipiens'', or the common house mosquito), molluscs, and arachnids are also described as oviparous. Modes of reproduction The traditional modes of reproduction include oviparity, taken to be the ancestral condition, traditionally where either unfertilised oocytes or fertilised eggs are spawned, and viviparity traditionally including any mechanism where young are born live, or where the development of the young is supported by either parent in or on any part of their body. However, the biologist Thierry Lodé recently divided the traditional category of oviparous reproduction into two modes that he named ovuliparity and (true) oviparity respectively. He distinguished the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
