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Lialis burtonis (Burton's Snake-lizard, Burton's Legless Lizard)

Synonyms: Lialis bicatenata; Lialis leptorhyncha; Lialis punctulata; Lialis punctulata var. concolor

Wikipedia Abstract

Burton's legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) is a species of pygopodid lizard which means that it lacks forelegs and has only rudimentary hind legs. Pygopodid lizards are also referred to as "legless lizards", "flap-footed lizards" and "snake-lizards". This species is endemic to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
View Wikipedia Record: Lialis burtonis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Female Weight [2]  13 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  9 inches (22 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Predators

Suta suta (Curl Snake, Myal Snake)[4]
Varanus gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Mesocestoides tetrathyridium <Unverified Name>[6]
Ophidascaris robertsi <Unverified Name>[7]
Piestocystis hoplocephali <Unverified Name>[6]
Porrorchis hylae[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
♦ 5Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0