Tag: Lizards

Free Download Varanoid Lizards of the World edited by Eric R. Pianka, Dennis King
English | September 21, 2004 | ISBN: 0253343666 | True EPUB | 588 pages | 55.8 MB
The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being wary and difficult to observe, monitors have received an extraordinary amount of attention from devoted students. Varanoid Lizards of the World is a comprehensive account of virtually everything important that is known about monitor lizards, beginning with detailed species accounts and proceeding to various modern comparative analyses.

Free Download Lizards of the World: Natural History and Taxon Accounts by Gordon H. Rodda
English | September 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1421438232 | True EPUB/PDF | 828 pages | 238/165 MB
The first, definitive reference on the natural history and ecology of every one of the known 6500+ species of lizards, spanning the entire globe.

Free Download The Phylogeny of Anguinomorph Lizards by Olivier Rieppel
English | PDF | 1980 | 86 Pages | ISBN : 3764312246 | 19.6 MB
The phylogenetic relationships of anguinomorph lizards are reconsidered on the basis of the structure of the head musculature, of the skull, and of the atlas – axis complex. A basal dichotomy separates the Anguinomorpha into the Anguinoidea and Platynota. The most primitive Anguinoidea are gerrhonotiform lizards. They share common ancestry with a hypothetical common ancestor of the Anguinae and Diploglossinae. Anniella is most closely related to the Anguinae among the Anguinoidea. The relationships of XenosaulUs and ShinisaulUs are poorly determinable on the basis of present evidence. For reasons of parsimony, the two genera are included within the same family, the Xenosauridae, which is tentatively derived from the transitional field leading from the Gerrhono- tinae to the hypothetical ancestor of the Anguinae and Diploglossinae.