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Subfamily: Teiinae. Genus: Cnemidophorus. Wagler, 1830[1] Cnemidophorus is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. Species in the genus Cnemidophorus are commonly referred to as whiptail lizards or racerunners. The genus is native to South America, Central America, and the West Indies.
Tuatara were originally classified as lizards in 1831 when the British Museum received a skull. [25] The genus remained misclassified until 1867, when A.C.L.G. Günther of the British Museum noted features similar to birds, turtles, and crocodiles. He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
The eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) is a species of legless lizard in the family Anguidae and the longest and heaviest species of glass lizards in the genus Ophisaurus, [5] [failed verification] endemic to the Southeastern United States. The streamlined, legless species is often confused with snakes.
Linnaeus, 1758. Range of A. fragilis. The slowworm (Anguis fragilis) is a legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, slow worm, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple and hazelworm. The "blind" in blindworm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slowworm's eyes are functional).
Gymnophthalmus. Species: G. speciosus. Binomial name. Gymnophthalmus speciosus. ( Hallowell, 1861) Gymnophthalmus speciosus, the golden spectacled tegu, is a microteiid lizard found in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. [2] It is a small, cylindrical lizard with a long tail and a tendency to reduced extremeties. [3]
The iris (pl.: irides or irises) is a thin, annular structure in the eye in most mammals and birds, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil, and thus the amount of light reaching the retina. In optical terms, the pupil is the eye's aperture, while the iris is the diaphragm.
A species of Central American lizard, Diploglossus owenii, was named in his honour by French herpetologists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in 1839. [ 22 ] The Sir Richard Owen Wetherspoons pub in central Lancaster is named in his honour, [ 23 ] and there is a blue plaque in his honour at Lancaster Royal Grammar School .
The word crocodile comes from Ancient Greek κροκόδιλος (krokódilos) 'lizard', used in the phrase ho krokódilos tou potamoú, ' the lizard of the river '.There are several variant Greek forms of the word attested, including the later form krokódeilos (κροκόδειλος) [4] found cited in many English reference works. [5]