10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCINCOID»
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The English Cyclopaedia: Geography
SCINCOID.E. SCIURID.E. T06 The south of France, Italy, all the islands of the
Mediterranean, Spain, and all the Mediterranean shore of Afriea, claim this
species as a resident It is viviparous, and lives upon worms, small terrestrial
molluscs, ...
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Vivarium naturæ or the naturalist's miscellany. ...
SCINCOID. LIZARD. Generic Character. Body four-footed, tailed, naked. Specific
Character. LIZARD with rounded scales, short legs and extremely short toes.
There are some species of Lizards which differ from the rest of the tribe in being ...
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General zoology, or, Systematic natural history, by G. Shaw ...
var. r Australasian Galliwasp. Lacerta Scincoides. Scincoid Lizard. Nat. Misc.pl.
17.9. Scincoid, or Scink-formed Lizard. While's Journal of a Foyage . to New
South Wales, p. Q4.2.pl. 30. This I consider as a variety of the preceding, with
which it ...
George Shaw, James Francis Stephens,
1802
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The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology
Scincoid Lizards. — Most of these smooth- scaled lizards have small mouths and
slender sharp teeth, fitted best for insect food ; they are usually confined to the
upper and lower jaws ; but the medicinal Scink of ancient pharmacy (Sanctis ...
Robert Bentley Todd,
1852
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
... from the Eocene sand underlying the Red Crag at Kyson or Kingston, in Suffolk
, about the size of a Guana; a small Scincoid lizard from the Stonesfield Oolite;
and the rare Rhynchosaurus from the new red sandstone near Shrewsbury.
Of similar nature to the membrana nictitans is a spectacle-like transparent space
in the inferior eye-lid of some lizards, as several of the Scincoid family, which can
be drawn over the eye; and, while it corresponds to the cornea, does not ...
Joh Müller, John Bell,
1843
... Fishes (ed. ii. Vol. ii. p. 396). The head of some of the scincoid lizards (the
Jamaican Celestus ociduus, for instance) is not at all unlike that represented; it is
full as vaulted, and as short, but a little more pointed, and with a flatter facial
angle.
Antoon Cornelis Oudemans,
2008
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The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia
A scincoid lizard from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of Montana. Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Breviora 331:1-9. — 1983. Sauria terrestria,
Amphisbaenia. In: Handbucb der Paliioherpetologie, Part 10A. Stuttgart: Gustav
Fisher Verlag.
Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin,
2003
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The Native Tribes of Central Australia:
their mate; and the Urliwatchera, a large lizard ( Varanus gouldii) people, have a
small scincoid lizard called Irpanta. All these mates of the people ofvarious
totems are held inaffectionate regard bythose to whom theyare especially related,
but ...
Walter Spencer, Francis Gillen,
2013
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Brief History of Herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate ...
Los Angeles County 219:1-34. Brown, W. C, and J. T. Marshall Jr. 1953 New
scincoid lizards from the Marshall Islands, with notes on their distribution. Copeia
1953:201-207. Busack, S. D. 1988 Biochemical and morphological differentiation
in ...
Javier A. Rodriguez-Robles, David A. Good, David B. Wake,
2003