No common name

The few members of this genus are both unusual lizards and have an unusual distribution. The relationships of the family are unclear, sometimes being placed near skinks, other times near worm lizards. All species are elongate, pencil-long animals with blunt noses, huge rostral scales, no ear openings and covered eyes. There are no functional limbs, but there are tiny flaps near the cloaca and preanal pores.

As for distribution, the Asian genus Dibamus ranges from southern China to New Guinea and lives in rotting logs and loose soil in high humidity forest areas. The single other species in the genus Anelytropsis is known from central Mexico, where it is found in arid desert areas in sand near ant and termite nests.