Pygopodidae, commonly known as snake-lizards, or flap-footed lizards, are a family of legless lizards with reduced or absent limbs, and are a type of gecko. The 47 species are placed in two subfamilies and eight genera. They have unusually long, slender bodies, giving them a strong resemblance to snakes. Like snakes and most geckos, they have no eyelids, but unlike snakes, they have external ear holes and flat, unforked tongues. They are native to Australia and New Guinea.
Taxonomy
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Pygopodidae is one of several taxonomic families of geckos, and is most closely related to two other Australian gecko families Carphodactylidae and Diplodactylidae.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1884). "Synopsis of the Families of existing Lacertilia". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 14: 117–122. (Pygopodidae, new family, p. 119).
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. . (Family Pygopodidae, pp. 285–286).
- Kluge AG (1974). "A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (147): 1–221.