Anniella pulchra, the California legless lizard, is a limbless, burrowing lizard often mistaken for a snake. Anniella pulchra measures around 7 inches (18 cm) from snout to vent (excluding the tail). The slightly pointed head and eyes are both rather small—adaptations for a primarily fossorial (burrowing) lifestyle.

Legless lizards (Anniella spp.) in California were traditionally considered one species, but are now considered five species (Pappenfuss and Parham, 2013). CNDDB has assigned new species concepts to most, but not all, previously known and extant legless lizard occurrences.

The deceptively snake-like California legless lizard is aptly named—it truly is a lizard with no legs! Two significant characteristics distinguish the California legless lizard from a snake: 1) it has moveable eyelids (snakes do not have eyelids at all); and 2) the California legless lizard can purposely detach the end of its tail to trick ...

California legless lizards are found in California and Mexico. They are found from western central California (San Joaquin and the coastal regions), through northwestern Baja California, and as far south as Colonia Guerrero, Mexico (Miller 1944; Stebbins 2003).

Legless lizards are of spotty occurrence throughout the rest of their range, which includes the floor of the San Joaquin Valley from San Joaquin Co. south, the west slope of the southern Sierra, the Tehachapi Mountains west of the desert, and the mountains of southern California.

2013年9月23日 · Four new California lizard species have been described in a new scientific paper published last week, and a couple of them were hiding in plain sight. The new species are all legless lizards.

North American Legless Lizards, genus Anniella, have smooth cycloid scales. Juveniles, like this one, can be darker than adults. It was found crawling on a trail in the late afternoon in San Diego County. Ring-necked Snakes use a mild venom to subdue their …

Anniella pulchra, the California legless lizard, is a limbless, burrowing lizard often mistaken for a snake.

2020年10月3日 · The California Legless lizard represents a set of five closely related species (and two subspecies) of legless lizards that together constitute an ecological and geographical replacement series of relatively wide-ranging and extreme narrow endemic taxa.

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