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A small body size would allow these lizards to take advantage of the brief warm periods experienced at high latitudes or elevations, which a larger lizard would otherwise not be able to exploit. [5] These animals illustrate the breadth of information that remains unknown with regard to herbivorous lepidosaurs.
Plated lizards: Sudan Plated Lizard (Gerrhosaurus major) Gymnophthalmidae: Spectacled lizards-- Lacertidae Oppel, 1811: Wall or true lizards: Ocellated Lizard (Lacerta lepida) Scincidae Oppel, 1811: Skinks: Western Blue-tongued Skink (Tiliqua occipitalis) Teiidae: Tegus or whiptails: Blue Tegu (Tupinambis teguixin) Xantusiidae: Night lizards
This contrast with the pleurodont condition found in the vast majority of lizards, where the teeth are attached to the inward-facing surface of the jaw. The teeth of the tuatara are extensively fused to the jawbone, making the boundary between the tooth and jaw difficult to discern, and the teeth lack roots and are not replaced during the ...
Most lizard species and some snake species are insectivores. The remaining snake species, tuataras, and amphisbaenians, are carnivores. While some snake species are generalist, others eat a narrow range of prey - for example, Salvadora only eat lizards. [33] The remaining lizards are omnivores and can consume plants or insects. The broad ...
Like most lizards, geckos can lose their tails in defence, a process called autotomy; the predator may attack the wriggling tail, allowing the gecko to escape. [ 8 ] The largest species, Gigarcanum delcourti , is only known from a single, stuffed specimen probably collected in the 19th century found in the basement of the Natural History Museum ...
Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, [1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
Like many other lizards, including the frilled lizard and basilisk, the collared lizard can run on its hind legs, and is a relatively fast sprinter. Record speeds have been around 16 miles per hour (26 km/h), much slower than the world record for lizards (21.5 mph or 34.6 km/h) attained by the larger-bodied Costa Rican spiny-tailed iguana ...
Anatomy of the frill of Chlamydosaurus kingii. The frilled lizard grows to a total length of around 90 centimetres (35 in) and a head-body length of 27 cm (11 in), and weighs up to 600 g (1.3 lb). [10] [12] [13] It has a particularly large and wide head; a long neck to accommodate the frill; long legs and a tail that makes most of its total length.