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American Legless Lizards - English
URL: http://www.wildherps.com/families/Anniellidae.html

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Anniellidae - English
URL: http://www.curator.org/LegacyVMNH/WebOfLife/Kingdom/P_Chordata/ClassReptilia/O_S

The Anniellidae is a family of three described taxa known only from coastal California, from near San Francisco south to central Baja. They are all diminutive, thin, limbless burrowers found in loose dry soils. They are similar enough to the Anguidae that some authors place them in that larger family. However, anniellids lack an external ear opening or the lateral fold that characterize many limbless anguids. The name "Anniella" is derived from Latin and means "little worm."

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Anniellidae - English
URL: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/Anniellidae.html

Anniellids burrow during the day and forage on the surface at night.

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