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A mite pocket on the neck of a northern alligator lizard A mite pocket is an area on the body of a lizard that where biting mites congregate such as chiggers and ticks . [ 1 ] They are slight depressions on the body, usually behind other appendages such as the legs and neck.
Tiliqua rugosa, most commonly known as the shingleback skink, stumptail skink or bobtail lizard, is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua) endemic to Australia. It is commonly known as the shingleback or sleepy lizard .
As in other reptiles, the skin of lizards is covered in overlapping scales made of keratin. This provides protection from the environment and reduces water loss through evaporation. This adaptation enables lizards to thrive in some of the driest deserts on earth. The skin is tough and leathery, and is shed (sloughed) as the animal grows.
Burton's legless lizard has significant morphological adaptations to enable it to deal with large struggling prey items. [9] The first adaptation is a skull with an elongated snout that may, along with its pointed, recurved and hinged teeth, be an adaptation that assists it to grip its prey. [ 16 ]
Oocysts of lizard Cryptosporidium are larger than the snake counterpart. [3] In mammals, most Cryptosporidius infections (cryptosporidiosis) are self-limiting and treatment has been developed for livestock as well as humans. [4] However, in lizards, the infection remains chronic and in most cases, eventually lethal.
The body temperature of the lizard during hibernation is 15.0 to 30.5 °C, but in many areas, the average body temperature during hibernation is around 16-18 °C. [ 5 ] The species is one of the few monitor lizards that tolerate relatively cold temperatures, being present as far north as south-west Kazakhstan.
A study conducted in 2014 established the existence of endogenous circadian rhythm in pigmentation changes in P. vitticeps; if exposed to sun, the dorsal skin of the lizard becomes darker, and if exposed to darkness, it becomes lighter. Under constant darkness (i.e. in the subjective night), the lizard's dorsal skin becomes the lightest. [7]
The Asian water monitor is one of the most exploited varanids; its skin is used for fashion accessories such as shoes, belts and handbags which are shipped globally, with as many as 1.5 million skins traded annually [1] and between 50,000 and 120,000 skins harvested from the wild in peninsular Malaysia. [36]