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Amphisbaenidae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Reptilia

Phylogenetic tree.

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Bipes biporus: Media - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/bipes/b._biporus$media.html

Photos.

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Family: Amphisbaenidae - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/reptilia/squamata/amphisbaenidae.

Species available in the Animal Diversity Web.

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Herp Encyclopedia - Amphisbaenia - English
URL: http://www.corallus.com/herpworld/encyclopedia/amphisbaenia.html

If the frogs, snakes and lizards are the famous members of the herp world, the amphisbaenians or better called "worm lizards" must be the animals behind the scenes that nobody hears about. The worm lizards belong in the group known as the squamates which include both snakes and lizards. They are probably the least known herp behind the tuatara and caecilians.

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Worm Lizards (Amphisbaenidae) - English
URL: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/Amphisbaenidae.html

Amphisbaenians are limbless squamates whoses pectoral and pelvic girdles have been significantly reduced or are absent. Usually they have a distinctly annulated pattern of scutellation and rather short tails. Amphisbaenids are adapted to a burrowing life style and accordingly, their skulls are heavily ossified and their brain is entirely surrounded by the frontal bones. In contrast to other limbless lizards or snakes, which have a reduced left lung, the right lung of amphisbaenians is reduced in size. List of Genera.

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Amphisbaenidae - German
URL: http://www.herpetobuch.de/bibliothek/echsen/amphisbaenidae/Amphisbaenidae_index.

Literaturverzeichnis Amphisbaenidae: Blanus, Cynisca, Diplometopon, Pachycalamus, Trogonophis.

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Amphisbaenidae Familyası - Turkish
URL: http://reptile.fisek.com.tr/amphisbaenidae.htm

Diğer kertenkelelerden çok farklı bir familyadır bu sebepten bazı herpetologlar tarafından farklı bir alttakıma dahil edilmişlerdir (Amphisbaenia) Dış görünüşleri bakımından solucana benzerler. Başlarının üzeri simetrik dizilmiş plaklarla örtülüdür. Ağızları küçük ve alttadır. Közler körelmiş ve deri ile kaplıdır ancak dışardan nokta olarak belli olur. Kulak delikleri yoktur. Gövde ve kuyruk kısımları halkalar halinde dizilmiş kare veya dörtgen şekilli yumuşak plaklarla kaplıdır bir çoğunda hiç bacak bulunmaz bir kısmındaysa sadece önde 2 bacak bulunur.

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