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.[1]

Anniellidae
Anniella pulchra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Infraorder: Neoanguimorpha
Clade: Diploglossa
Clade: Anguioidea
Family: Anniellidae
Genus: Anniella
Gray, 1852
Species

See text.

Classification

The following species of Anniella are recognized:[2]

  • 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

References
  1. David Perlman (2013-09-18). "4 new species of legless lizard identified". SFGate. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  2. Anniella at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 27 October 2018.
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