Anguidae

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Name (Hebrew)
קמטניים
Name (Latin)
Anguidae
Other forms of name
Anguinidae
See Also From tracing topical name
Lizards
Squamata
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q191059
Library of congress: sh 85005133
Sources of Information
  • McGraw-Hill:v. 2, p. 962.
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Wikipedia description:

Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere. Common characteristics of this group include a reduced supratemporal arch, striations on the medial faces of tooth crowns, osteoderms, and a lateral fold in the skin of most taxa. The group is divided into two living subfamilies, the legless Anguinae, which contains slow worms and glass lizards, among others, found across the Northern Hemisphere, and Gerrhonotinae, which contains the alligator lizards, native to North and Central America. The family Diploglossidae (which contains the galliwasps) was also formerly included. The family contains about 87 species in 8 genera.

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