bunjywunjy:

drgaellon:

alolandunsparce:

Glass lizard = glass snake: legless lizards from the genera Dopasia (Asian glass lizards) and Ophisaurus (North American glass lizards) as well as the species

Ophisaurus koellikeri (Moroccan glass lizard) and

Pseudopus apodus (

sheltopusik or Pallas’ glass lizard). You can tell they’re lizards because they have external ear holes and movable eyelids. Some glass lizards have vestigial legs:

But they don’t do anything!

Slowworm = blindworm: genus of lizard closely related to glass lizards, but no one calls them glass lizards. Similar in most ways to glass lizards.

Worm lizards = Amphisbaenia: a clade of legless reptiles consisting of 6 families that are neither lizards nor snakes, though they are more closely related to lizards. They like to SCREAM. They can usually be identified by their ring shaped scales, a trait that has resulted in their common name of ‘worm lizards.’ Some worm lizards have vestigial legs, but all known species with this trait are contained in the genus Bipes:

Like this fine fellow.

Snake-lizards = 

flap-footed lizards: legless lizards of the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are natives of Australia, and as such, are upside down. All Pygopodidae have vestigial hind legs. They’re a type of gecko!

NONE OF THESE BOYS ARE SNAKES

There are a lot of other kinds of legless lizards, but these are the most common/well known.

@bunjywunjy

reptiles deliberately misplace their limbs at the first opportunity, I see