Legless lizard

Common name for a lizard without obvious legs

Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are often distinguishable from snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids possessing external ear openings lack of broad belly scales notched rather than forked tongue having two lungs of roughly equal size (snakes have one short and one very long lung) having a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail).

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