what is a legless lizard?

Question

if it's a legless lizard, doesn't that make it a snake?
explain.

Answer 1

Legless lizards are lizards. They can be distinguished from snakes because they have eyelids, and ears which snakes don't have, and they have much longer tails than snakes which usually can detach and regrow like many legged lizards.

Answer 2

I'll list a few of the differences between a snake and a legless lizard



1. Snakes lack eyelids and instead use a clear scale (brille) over their eyes, while lizards (except for some species of geckos) have eyelids



2. Snakes don't have ears and pretty much "hear by feeling vibrations against their epidermis, while most lizards possess visual earholes (earless lizards have internal ears).



3. Scales = snakes have certain scale alignments and patterns (scale rows) that differentiate from snakes



4. Organ systems = snakes have very unique organ systems like "tracheal lungs" and sometimes even a "vestigial right or left lung".



5. Prey = snakes that obtain lengths of over 1.5 feet generally will eat rodent babies, eggs, inverts, salamanders, fish, other snakes, and frogs...........the legless lizard though, tends to stick with just inverts



teeth = snakes have fangs........the typical harmless snake belongs to the family Colubridae and is distinguished as "Rear-fanged". Legless lizards however don't have fangs....they have actual very tiny serrated teeth.



Tail vertebra = snakes vertebrae bones are fully calcified and attached with complete catiligaments, while lizards tend to have "break points" in their tail vertebrae that are capable of separtating from the rest of the body and closing of the circulatory veins/ateries at the point of breakage.



Limbs = legless lizards still posses actual bones from feet inside their body, while (most)snakes just possess remnants of a pelvic girdle.

Answer 3

A legless lizard still has the bone structures of legs on the inside of their bodies. A snake has completely lost the leg bones. It's an evolutionary thing.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/lizard_legless.htm

Answer 4

Certain closely related species can mate and produce live offspring, such as lions and tigers, horses and zebras, etc. However what distinguishes one species from another is the failure to produce offspring that can survive, prosper, and go on to make the original miscegenation perpetrators grandparents. I suppose if humans can do it with farm animals then snakes and legless lizards could sleep together, but nothing would come of it since they are not THAT closely related.

Answer 5

No, its a lizard with no legs. If you had your legs cut off, you dont turn into a snake, do you? Or it could be a really drunk lizard.

Answer 6

no lizard are of the

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Lacertilia



where snakes are of the

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes



its not all to do with outward appearance its about there Scientific classification

Answer 7

A legless lizard is one that has drank too much beer.

Answer 8

lizard that does not have legs