Pletholax (Keeled Legless Lizard) is a legless lizard occurring in
Western Australia
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Species
Two
species
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Pletholax gracilis
Pletholax (Keeled Legless Lizard) is a legless lizard occurring in Western Australia.
Species
Two species are recognized as being valid.
*'' Pletholax gracilis'' - slender slider
*'' Pletholax edelensis'' - Edel land slider
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'' - slender slider
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Pletholax edelensis
''Pletholax edelensis'', the Edel land slider, is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae.
Geographic range
''Pletholax edelensis'' is endemic to coastal areas of western Australia
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'' - Edel land slider
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Nota bene
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binomial authority
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trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Pletholax''.
References
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Pygopodidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (''Pletholax gracilis'', new combination, p. 245).
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Cope ED (1864). "On the Characters of the higher Groups of REPTILIA SQUAMATA—and especially of the DIPLOGLOSSA". ''Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia'' 1864: 224–231. (''Pletholax'', new genus, p. 229; ''Pygopus gracilis'', new species, p. 229).
Legless lizards
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Pygopodids of Australia
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