Anguidae – many limbless species, including genera Ophisaurus and Anguis. From Wordnik.com. [How to make a snake - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A number of lizard species (skinks, geckos, agamas) are characteristic for the mountain forests, among those Himalayan rock agama (Stellio himalayanus), legless glass lizard (Ophisaurus apodus), Asian snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus pannonicus). From Wordnik.com. [Gissaro-Alai open woodlands] Reference
It must not be forgotten that the genus Anguis belongs to Europe, the Ophisaurus to North. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference
It must not be forgotten that the genus Anguis belongs to Europe, the Ophisaurus to North America, the Pseudopus to Dalmatia and the Caspian steppe, the Sepo to Italy, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence]
A significant number of endemic species are also found here, such as the banded lizard-fingered gecko (Saurodactylus fasciatus), Macrovipera transmediterranea, Koelliker’s glass lizard (Ophisaurus koellikeri) (the only anguid in North Africa), Trogonophis wiemanni, three cylindrical skinks (Chalcides colosii, C. ebneri, C. mauritanicus) and two fringe-fingered lizards (Acanthodactylus blanci, A. savignyi). From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean woodlands and forests] Reference
Lizard, Island Glass Ophisaurus compressus 56. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Lizard, Eastern Glass Ophisaurus ventralis 132. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference
The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo, Scincus, and at last the true lizards. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence]
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