American legless lizard

Anniellidae
Anniella pulchra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Neoanguimorpha
Clade:	Diploglossa
Clade:	Anguioidea
Family:	Anniellidae Boulenger, 1885
Genus:	Anniella Gray, 1852
Species
See text.

The family Anniellidae, known as American legless lizards , contains six species in a single genus Anniella: A. pulchra (California legless lizard), the rare A. geronimensis (Baja California legless lizard), and four more discovered in 2013. ^[1]

Classification

The following species of Anniella are recognized: ^[2]

• Anniella alexanderae Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – Temblor legless lizard
• Anniella campi Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – southern Sierra legless lizard
• Anniella geronimensis Shaw, 1940 – Baja California legless lizard
• Anniella grinnelli Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – Bakersfield legless lizard
• Anniella pulchra Gray 1852 – California legless lizard
• Anniella stebbinsi Pappenfuss & Parham, 2013 – southern California legless lizard

See also

• Glass lizard

References

1. David Perlman (2013-09-18). "4 new species of legless lizard identified". SFGate. Archived from the original on 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
2. Anniella at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 27 October 2018.

External links

• Media related to Anniellidae at Wikimedia Commons