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  2. Pygopodidae - Wikipedia

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    A number of external characteristics can be used to distinguish legless lizards (including the hooded scaly-foot) from snakes: [8] [6] [7] Flap-footed lizards have vestigial hind limbs. Legless lizards have broad, fleshy tongues, dissimilar from the forked tongues of snakes. Most legless lizards have external ears. Ventral scales are in a ...

  3. Skink - Wikipedia

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    Raccoons, foxes, possums, snakes, coatis, weasels, crows, cats, dogs, herons, hawks, lizards, and other predators of small land vertebrates also prey on various skinks. This can be troublesome, given the long gestation period for some skinks, making them an easy target to predators such as the mongoose , which often threaten the species to at ...

  4. Is that a snake or one of NC’s three legless lizards? Here’s ...

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    North Carolina is home to three kinds of legless lizards, also called glass lizards, which look remarkably similar to snakes: the Eastern glass lizard, the slender glass lizard and the mimic glass ...

  5. Legless lizard - Wikipedia

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    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). [1]

  6. Chalcides chalcides - Wikipedia

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    This skink superficially looks like a snake except for the possession of tiny limbs with three-toed feet, the middle toe of the hind foot being longer than the other two, a fact that differentiates it from the Western three-toed skink (Chalcides striatus). It has a small head and thick neck and grows to a length of about 48 cm (19 in), more ...

  7. Pink-tailed worm-lizard - Wikipedia

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    The pink-tailed worm-lizard or granite worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella) is a rare legless lizard found in Australia. The animal looks like a combination of small snake and worm. Its total length is up to 14 cm. It has a pink tail and is white underneath. The head and neck are brown, and the rest of the top of the body is pale grey.

  8. Ophisaurus - Wikipedia

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    Slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)Ophisaurus (from the Greek 'snake-lizard') is a genus of superficially snake-like legless lizards in the subfamily Anguinae.Known as joint snakes, glass snakes, or glass lizards, they are so-named because their tails are easily broken; like many lizards, they have the ability to deter predation by dropping off part of the tail, which can break into ...

  9. Anniella pulchra - Wikipedia

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    According to californiaherps.com, this lizard was previously split into two distinct species, the Anniella pulchra pulchra, the Silver Legless Lizard, and the Anniella pulchra nigra, the Black Legless Lizard. This distinction is no longer recognized due to a study that demonstrated that these populations have different ancestors, separating ...

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