Ablepharus

Locust lizard ( Ablepharus kitaibelii )

The snake eyes skinks ( Ablepharus ) are a genus within the family of skinks. It includes the smallest skinks Europe. Snake eyes skinks live exclusively on the ground between low grass, dirt with sparse vegetation or in the leaf litter layer lights deciduous forests. They lay eggs that develop in the soil.

Features

Snake eyes skinks have a long and lean body with poorly developed limbs, but still carry the complete number of fingers and toes. Arms and legs are relatively far apart and are no longer used when Snake. The name derives from the overgrown to a transparent capsule eyelids, reminiscent of a snake eye.

Species

  • Striped snake eye ( Ablepharus bivittatus ( Menetries, 1832) )
  • Ablepharus budaki Göçmen, Kumlutap & Topunodlu 1996
  • Ablepharus chernovi Darevsky 1953
  • Ablepharus darvazi Yeriomchenko & Panfilov 1990
  • Ablepharus deserti Bush 1868
  • Ablepharus grayanus ( Stoliczka 1872)
  • Locust lizard ( Ablepharus kitaibelii ) ( Bibron & Bory Saint-Vincent 1833)
  • Ablepharus lindbergi Wettstein, 1960
  • Ablepharus pannonicus ( Fitzinger 1823)
  • Ablepharus rueppellii (Gray, 1839)

Swell

  • Wolf -Eberhard Engelmann, Jürgen Fritzsche, Rainer Günther, Fritz Jürgen fruit: amphibians and reptiles in Europe. Neumann Verlag, Leipzig 1985
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