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    Species Accepted

    Anniella pulchra Gray, 1852

    Black Legless Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      Apoda Negra
      Apoda Plateada
      Black Legless Lizard English
      California Legless Lizard English
      Kalifornische Ringelschleiche German
      Lagartija sin patas californiana Spanish
      Lagartija sin patas norteña Spanish
      Lagartija Ápoda Spanish
      Lagartija-sin patas californiana Spanish
      Northern California Legless Lizard English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      51 results
      Smith, Hobart M. (1946). Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, Xxii + 557 Pp.
      Gray, J. E. (1852). Description of several new genera of reptiles, principally from the collection of H.M.S. Herald. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 10: 437-440.
      Gans, C., W.K. Morgan & E.S. Allen. (1992). Surface Locomotion of the Elongate and Limbless Lizard Anniella pulchra (Anguidae). Herpetologica 48 (2): 246-262.
      Bertolotto, C.E.V.; K.C.M. Pellegrino and Y. Yonenaga-Yassuda. (2004). Occurrence of B chromosomes in lizards: a review. Cytogenet Genome Res 106: 243–246.
      Fischer, J. G. (1885). Ueber eine kollektion Reptilien und Amphibien von der insel nias und uber eine zweite art der gattung Anniella Gray. Abhandlungen Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Zu Hamburg, Vol. 9.
      Fischer, J. G. (1886). Herpetologische Notizen. Abh. Geb. Naturw. Hamb. 9: 51-67 (1-19).
      Wermuth, H. (1969). Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Anguidae. Anniellidae, Xenosauridae. Das Tierreich 90: 1-42.
      Zweifel, Richard G. (1958). Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to western Mexico 2. Notes on reptiles and amphibians from the Pacific Coastal Islands of Baja California. American Museum Novitates (1895): 1-17.
      Gorman, J. (1957). Recent collections of the Californian limbless lizard, Anniella pulchra. Copeia 1957 (2): 148-150.
      Hallermann, J. (1998). Annotated catalogue of the type specimens of the herpetological collection in the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst 95: 197-223.

      Citation

      Anniella pulchra Gray, 1852 in undefined