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Ophisaurus gracilis
legless lizards get up to 22" long, adults reddish brown with blue crossbars. in contrast to snakes they have functional eyelids and a distinct ear opening
montane rainforest
spotted these legless lizards while hiking to see Rafflesia pricei in the mountains a few hours from Kota Kinabalu. even my guide was blown away to see 2 of them together.
Spotted on Jan 16, 2002
Submitted on Apr 16, 2011
4 Comments
Thanks lori, sorry for the very late reply! Thanks ZHONG, I'm not sure why it is legless. Yes, Chun they are there but apparently not usually seen.
Great spotting, Dan.
I did not know that we have this species in Borneo.
Hi dandoucette, Your photo is very cool. Now I am doing my best to answer why it is legless and in which postion of evolutionary tree, which is based on its genome! This is a great challege, but very interesting. How about this? Also very cool?
Funky colors. I think I've posted the only other legless lizard here, but it's nowhere as pretty as yours are.