American legless lizard

American legless lizard

Taxobox
name = Anniellidae


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Anniella pulchra"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Anniellidae
genus = "Anniella"
genus_authority = Gray, 1852
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "A. pulchra pulchra"
"A. pulchra nigra"
"A. geronimensis"
The family "Anniellidae" of American legless lizards contains two species in a single genus "Anniella": "A. pulchra", the California legless lizard, with two subspecies "A. p. pulchra" and "A. p. nigra", and the rare "A. geronimensis", the Baja California legless lizard.

ee also

*Glass lizards


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