#glass lizard

[herpsandbirds]

Levant Glass Lizard (Pseudopus apodus levantinus), family Anguidae, Lebanon

Legless lizard.

A subspecies of the Common or European Legless Lizard aka Sheltopusik

This is a particularly dark-colored individual.

photograph by Rami Khashab

[wyrm-hoard]

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[typhlonectes]

Western Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus), Jefferson county, MO, USA

photograph by Peter Paplanus | Flickr CC

[demoniccow]

Show your support for these grumpy, misunderstood lizards by joining their (informal) club! The rules are simple: No smiling. Eat Snails. Roll like a rotisserie chicken if a human tries to pick you up. And, most importantly, Be Cool (because you're ectothermic, duh).

Shirt available at R.C. Murphy Designs.

[wesleytyler]

[barksbog]

might open emergency commissions might just dig a hole under the house and never come out again

[inbarfink]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

When handling members of the family Anguinae, it's important to be extremely careful! These reptiles are known as glass lizards, due to the fact that their tails will 'shatter' into many pieces when they feel threatened.

(Image: A western slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus) by Daniel D. Fogell)

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another fund benefiting Palestinians– including esim donations and verified gofundmes– I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

[nightmaresyrup]

The Fekk snekk Sheltopusik!

[herpsandbirds]

Capa Capa Glass Lizard (Ophiodes intermedius), family Diploglossidae, Bolivia

The Glass Lizards in the genus Ophisaurus, which are in the family Anguidae, are completely limbless (legless lizards).

This genus, Ophiodes, in the Galliwasp family, Diploglossidae, has small flap-like vestigial hind limbs.

photographs by Eduardo Navia 

[platycryptus]

This eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) is not a snake, but part of an unrelated group of legless lizards- you can tell because it has eyelids and external ear openings. They also aren‘t nearly as flexible as a real snake, with a more stiff slithering motion and lacking the ability to coil or wrap around things, but their limited degree of bendiness suits them just fine for gliding through the grass in search of crunchy insects and snails.

They‘re called glass lizards not due to their glassy-smooth scales, but because (unlike snakes) they readily shed their tails in sections when threatened, appearing to ‘shatter’ into two or more pieces. This individual is in the process of regenerating its tail and is shorter than normal, but in an intact individual the tail can be longer than the rest of the body and the lizard will basically break in half if handled too roughly.

(Florida, 4/17/23)

[demoniccow]

Last year I accidentally made *the* perfect shirt for Grumpy Dads. I only know this because someone gifted one to a certified Grumpy Dad and this normally quiet man sent back a long text about how perfect it is for him.

[birdiepfft]

Birdie Wrote a Shattered Glass Fanfic Instead of Drawing Because his Lizard Pissed on his Laptop

That's it. That's the post. Enjoy the brainworms and here's a blurb:

And that’s why he was back here. The pull of that warm, fuzzy feeling felt intoxicating. Orion obviously didn’t expect it, if he did, he probably would have tried to capture it, then store it into a precious part of his mind for easy access. But now, he has resorted to this. It shouldn’t be hard — again, it’s not like he hasn’t done it before — but this felt different. Such a breach of privacy with his best friend felt wrong. But was anything Orion doing ever right? He slacked off work, breached archives, sold sensitive information, forged contraband… Orion erased the moral part of his programming a long time ago. He couldn’t even remember if he had one to begin with.

So why was this so difficult?

[redthedead]

Fuck it, trans bead lizard. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦎

[chaobunnyarts]

April's Tiny Reptile and Mini Amphibian designs: Sheltopusik and Goliath Frog! 🦎🐸

Fun facts! Even though sheltopusik looks like a snake, it's actually a legless lizard! My Patreon can be found here.

[antiqueanimals]

Slow worm (Anguis fragilis)

Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1958.

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