Burton's legless lizards (Lialis) Also called flap-footed lizards or snake lizards, Lialis lizards are found throughout Australia, except for southern Victoria and Tasmania. They have a distinctive elongated snout and feed on other lizards, including skinks and other
Glass Lizards
They range in size from 15-40 inches long and are usually tan, brown, or greenish, often with dark lengthwise stripes on their backs, and have pale yellow-tan bodies. Glass lizards are legless, and their long tails give them a very snake-like appearance.
Lizards have external ear openings and moveable eyelids, whereas snakes do not. These lizards take advantage of this mimicry and have even been seen curling up like a snake, which wards off potential predators. Another difference between a snake and a legless lizard is the shape of the tongue.
snake-eyed skink, any of about 35 species of lizards constituting two genera (Ablepharus and Cryptoblepharus) in the family Scincidae. Snake-eyed skinks lack eyelids and have transparent scales (spectacles) covering the eyes similar to those of snakes.
Burton's Legless Lizard is often mistaken for a snake, but there are key differences. A Burton's Legless Lizard has a wedge-shaped snout that sets it apart from both snakes and other lizards. Their colour can vary from cream, grey, brown, dark red with head usually slightly darker.
Mosasauroids (aigialosaurs and mosasaurs), a group of large marine lizards, are identified as the nearest relatives of snakes, thus resolving the long-standing problem of snake affinities.
Delma lizards (Delma)
Growing to 30cm, members of this genus are most often mistaken for brown snakes. Species found in Victoria and southern New South Wales include the marble-faced Delma, spinifex Delma and the endangered striped Delma.
Most adult Eastern Ratsnakes are about 42-72 inches (106-183 cm) in total length, with a record length recorded of 101 inches (256.5 cm). This species is variable in coloration, but juveniles are gray with dark blotches and a sandy-gray belly with dark square blotches. In the Panhandle, juveniles and adults look alike.
Eastern Water Skinks have a long tail and their back is greenish-greyish brown with small black spots. They also have a white stripe that runs from their eye down the side of their body. Most are around 28 cm long. Eastern Water Skinks live in forests, woodlands and parks and urban gardens in eastern Australia.
Lizards are part of a group of animals known as reptiles. They are most closely related to snakes. In fact, some lizards, called sheltopusiks, look like snakes because they have no legs! Many lizards today resemble the ancient reptiles of the dinosaur era.
The biggest difference between between snakes and legless lizards is that legless lizards possess earholes and eyelids while snakes lack both. In addition, legless lizards can have legs. Another key difference is that snakes swallow their prey whole while legless lizards hunt mostly insects and smaller bugs.
In fact, the tuatara is among the most unusual wildlife in the world. Although it looks like a lizard, it really is quite different. Found in New Zealand only, the tuatara's closest relatives are an extinct group of reptiles from around the time of the dinosaurs.
the specialized, broad belly scales snakes do so have a. much harder time on flat, smooth surfaces.
1) Legless Lizards (Glass Lizards)
They certainly look like snakes! There are a few characteristics that make them true lizards and not snakes. First, they can blink. Snakes do not have eyelids but a clear membrane that covers their eyes.
The bodies of skinks are typically cylindrical in cross section, and most species have cone-shaped heads and long, tapering tails. The largest species, the prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), reaches a maximum length of about 76 cm (30 inches), but most species are less than 20 cm (8 inches) long.
Classified with lizards in the order Squamata, snakes represent a lizard that, over the course of evolution, has undergone structural reduction, simplification, and loss as well as specialization. All snakes lack external limbs, but not all legless reptiles are snakes.
Garden Skink
They may be shy and quick to hide when you approach, but garden skinks are some of the most common and well known buddies in Australian backyards. Male skinks are highly territorial and aggressively attack other males during spring.
Garden Skinks (Lampropholis guichenoti)) are small brown or grey lizards. They can have different markings or stripes depending on the species. Garden Skinks grow to around 8 to 10 cm in length.
The truth is that a skink is a type of lizard. However, they differ in a few ways. Unlike other lizards, skinks have shorter legs and elongated bodies. They appear snake- like and are often described as a snake with legs.
Corn snakes, sometimes called red rat snakes, are slender, orange or brownish-yellow snakes with a pattern of large, red blotches outlined in black down their backs. Along their bellies are distinctive rows of alternating black and white marks, which resemble a checkerboard pattern.
Description: The gartersnake is marked with a pattern of three light stripes on a dark body, although the pattern can vary. One narrow stripe runs down the center of the snake's back, with a broad stripe on each side. The stripes are usually yellow, but can be shades of blue, green, or brown.
But some species of lizards also rear up on their hind legs from time to time, particularly when running. The Australian frilled lizard does it so readily that it has earned the nickname of 'bicycle lizard'. And the South American basilisk can move so quickly on its hind legs that it can even run over water.
It has a large head with small beady eyes and a short fat tail. It's skin is bright pink or orange and black in color with warty-like bumps covering its body. The colorful, beadlike skin of the gila monster helps with camouflage. Its claws are used for digging burrows and for digging out other animals' eggs.
Draco Lizards (Draco volans) are also known as the flying dragon. This lizard species is small in size, only growing up to 8.4 inches long, but is able to take flight like a dragon. There are around 40 species of Draco lizards. Blue, red, brown, and orange are the colors they appear in.