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Order Squamata
Suborder Anguinomorpha
Family Anniellidae (American Legless lizards)
Anniella pulchra
© Laurie J. Vitt
Content: only 2 species in the genus Anniella.
Appearance: slender-bodied, limbless lizards. Anniella species have a striking similarity to anguids of the genus Anguis in Europe (see family Anguidae).
Distribution: USA (California) and Mexico (Baja California)
Habitat: arid habitats, fossorial.
Size: maximum 30 cm total length
Food: carnivorous.
Behaviour: Anniellids burrow during the day and forage on the surface at night.
Reproduction: live-bearing.
List of genera:
References:
Bell, Christopher J.;Mead, Jim I.;Fay, Leslie P. (1995)
Neogene history of Anniella Gray, 1852 (Squamata, Anniellidae)
with comments on postcranial osteology.
Copeia 1995 (3): 719-726
Macey,J.R. et al. (1999)
Molecular phylogenetics, tRNA evolution, and historical
biogeography in Anguid lizards and related txanomic families.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12 (3): 250-272
Scherpner,Ch. in:
Klemmer,K., Wermuth,H. & Hediger,H., eds. (1979-1993)
Grzimeks Tierleben, Bd. 6: Kriechtiere
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
p. 319-320
Sprackland, Robert G. (1995)
California's legless lizards (Genus Anniella).
San Diego Herpetological Society Newsletter 17 (5): 1-3
Wermuth, Heinz (1969)
Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Anguidae, Anniellidae,
Xenosauridae.
Das Tierreich 90 : 1-41
Zug,G.R.; Vitt, L.J. & Caldwell, J.P. (2001)
Herpetology,
2nd ed.
Academic Press San Diego, London, [...]XIV + 630 pp.