glass lizard

noun

any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.

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They also got the first record of the Sunda clouded leopard in the area and found a specimen of a little-known legless reptile called Wegner’s glass lizard.

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Yet, even as we study Sumatra’s great mammals, we know next to nothing about many of the island’s smaller animals, such as Wegner’s glass lizard.

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