Adder-eye skinks
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St. John's Lizard ( Ablepharus kitaibelii ) |
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| Lichtenstein , 1823 |
The adder-eye skinks ( Ablepharus ) are a genus within the skink family . It includes the smallest smooth lizards in Europe. Adder-eye skinks live exclusively on the ground between low lawn, scree with light vegetation or in the fall foliage layer of light deciduous forests. They lay eggs that develop in the soil.
features
Adder-eye skinks have a slender, elongated body with weak limbs, which, however, still carry the entire number of fingers and toes. Arms and legs are relatively far apart and are no longer used when meandering. It is named after the eyelids that have grown together to form a transparent capsule, reminiscent of a snake's eye.
species
The following 10 recent species belong to the genus of the adder-eye skinks:
- Striped adder's eye ( Ablepharus bivittatus ( Menetries , 1832))
- Ablepharus budaki Göcmen , Kumlutap & Topunodlu , 1996
- Ablepharus chernovi Darevsky , 1953
- Ablepharus darvazi Yeriomchenko & Panfilov , 1990
- Ablepharus deserti shrub , 1868
- Ablepharus grayanus ( Stoliczka , 1872)
- St. John's Lizard ( Ablepharus kitaibelii ( Bibron & Bory St-Vincent , 1833))
- Ablepharus lindbergi Wettstein , 1960
- Ablepharus pannonicus ( Fitzinger , 1823)
- Ablepharus rueppellii ( Gray , 1839)
swell
- Wolf-Eberhard Engelmann, Jürgen Fritzsche, Rainer Günther, Fritz Jürgen Obst : amphibians and reptiles of Europe. Neumann Verlag, Leipzig 1985.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ablepharus in The Reptile Database ; accessed on August 19, 2020.
