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REPTILIA:
SQUAMATA: DIBAMIDAE: Anelytropsis
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Anelytropsis papillosus
Cope, 1885
No common name
Photos
& text by Dr. Robert Sprackland.
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Range:
Found in sandy areas of eastern central Mexico.
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Diagnosis:
A small, pinkish lizard with a huge rostral scale,
no externally visible eye or ear openings, and limbs reduced to a tiny
pair of flaps near the cloaca.
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Description:
Similar to the genus Dibamus from
which it differs in possessing an interorbital septum, columella cranii,
and a single premaxillary bone. Osteoderms are present.
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Natural History:
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Reproduction:
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Taxonomy & Relationships:
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Variation:
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Additional Comments:
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Type Specimen:
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Literature:
Greer, Allen. 1985. The relationships of the
lizard genera Anelytropsis and Dibamus. Journal of
Herpetology 19(1):116-156.
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