worm lizards
amphisbaenia latin

Agamodon is a small genus of worm lizards in the Trogonophidae family.

Iberian worm lizards are frequently mistaken for small snakes or large worms.

They are unpigmented worm lizards with rounded heads, and extensive fusion of the head shields.

Amphisbaena is a genus in the family Amphisbaenidae, commonly known as the worm lizards.

Given that it resembles modern worm lizards, the lacertoids most likely appeared and diversified in the Cretaceous.

“It indirectly implies that identifying burrowing worm lizards with snakes is a mistake.”

The Amphisbaenidae, common name worm lizards, are a family of amphisbaenians, a group of limbless vertebrates.

Amphisbaenia, the worm lizards.

Also driven from their burrows and swimming through the water were rodent-eating reptiles known as a "worm lizards" that look like giant white earthworms.

They found that the fossilized lizard had a thickened, capsulelike skull with no external ear opening, similar to worm lizards.

The worm lizards, also called amphisbaenians, look so similar to primitive snakes that researchers weren't clear which group they belonged to, the snake or lizard family.

Cadeidae - Cuban keel-headed worm lizards (1 genus).

Rhineuridae - North American worm lizards (1 genus)

Cadea is a genus of Amphisbaenia, commonly known as Cuban keel-headed worm lizards.

Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 180 extant species.

Trogonophidae - Palearctic worm lizards (4 genera)

Amphisbaena (worm lizards)

Infraorder Amphisbaenia: legless burrowing worm lizards.

Gators, anacondas and 'worm lizards' Some shelters were already packed with people, pets and livestock, and had little food or medical supplies.

Blanidae - Anatolian, Iberian, and Moroccan worm lizards (1 genus)

Reptiles include turtles (freshwater and marine), lizards, worm lizards, snakes and a caiman.

Additional small and little-known groups include the amphisbaenids (worm lizards) and the primitive lizard-like tuataras of New Zealand.

Trogonophidae (Palearctic worm lizards or desert ringed lizards) is a small family of amphisbaenians, containing five species in four genera.

Squamates: snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians (worm lizards)

They look like Amphisbaenia, but are in fact, only distantly related.

The relationships of the Amphisbaenia to other lizards have long been a mystery.

The Amphisbaenia is diagnosed by a suite of apomorphic characters.

Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World.

Squamata includes snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenia.

Legless lizards (Amphisbaenia): 2 species from Trinidad only.

Infraorder Amphisbaenia There are other versions, and the taxonomy will probably not settle until more molecular evidence is collected.

The limbs are absent, and in other Amphisbaenia, the body is covered by scales arranged in rings, giving the animal a worm-like appearance.

Cadea is a genus of Amphisbaenia, commonly known as Cuban keel-headed worm lizards.

Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 180 extant species.

Phylogenetic analyses strongly confirm the monophyly of the Amphisbaenia inclusive of S. hexatabularis.

Cladistic analysis conducted by Müller et al. suggests that Cryptolacerta is a sister taxon to Amphisbaenia.

Infraorder Amphisbaenia: legless burrowing worm lizards.

Morphology of the hemipenes of some Amphisbaenia (Reptilia: Squamata).

Two further new species of Amphisbaena from semi-arid northeast Brasil (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia).

The 190 species of worm-lizards in the Amphisbaenia belong to a different suborder of the Squamata to the lizards and are not included here.

Notes on Amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia).

The use of a constraint tree derived from gross anatomical characters suggested that the Amphisbaenia is the sister-group of the Autarchoglossa.

Dollfusnema amphisbaenia n.gen., n.sp. is distinguished from all other genera in the Cosmocercinae by the possession of cuticular interlabia between the cephalic lips.

Amphisbaena schmidti, a third species of the genus from Puerto Rico (Amphisbaenia: Reptilia).

The Amphisbaenia are especially widespread, occurring in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.

The Lacertoidea is a group of lizards that includes the Lacertidae, Teiidae, Gymnophthalmidae, and the burrowing Amphisbaenia.

They originate from the early Jurassic and are made up of the three suborders Lacertilia (paraphyletic), Serpentes, and Amphisbaenia.

On Amphisbaena heathi Schmidt and A. carvalhoi, new species, small forms from the northeast of Brazil (Amphisbaenia: Reptilia).

Lacertilia comprises four generally recognized infraorders, Iguania, Gekkota, Amphisbaenia and Autarchoglossa, with the "blind skinks" in the family Dibamidae having an uncertain position.