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词条 Lialis
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  1. Diet

  2. Reproduction

  3. Species

  4. References

  5. Further reading

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| image = Lialis burtonis 1.jpg
| image_caption = Burton's legless lizard (Lialis burtonis)
| taxon = Lialis
| authority = Gray, 1835
| range_map = Lialis distribution.svg
| range_map_caption = Geographic range of the genus Lialis in Australia and New Guinea.
}}

Lialis is a genus of lizards in the family Pygopodidae. The genus is endemic to Australia and New Guinea.

Diet

Lizards in the genus Lialis specialize in eating skinks, and have hinged teeth and highly kinetic skulls that allow them to swallow their slippery prey whole.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

Reproduction

Lizards in the genus Lialis exhibit oviparity[1] and typically lay two eggs per clutch.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

Species

The following two species are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Lialis burtonis {{small|Gray, 1835}}
  • Lialis jicari {{small|Boulenger, 1903}}

References

1. ^"Lialis ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • 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. (Genus Lialis, p. 246).
  • Gray JE (1835). "Characters of a New Genus of Reptiles (Lialis) from New South Wales". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1834: 134-135. (Lialis, new genus, p. 134). (in Latin and English).
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3 : Pygopodidae|Lizard genera|Taxa named by John Edward Gray

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