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Identifier: lifehistoryof00leig (find matches)
Title: The life-history of British lizards : and their local distribution in the British Isles
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Leighton, Gerald (Gerald Rowley), b. 1868
Subjects: Lizards Reptiles
Publisher: Edinburgh : George A. Morton London : Simpkin, Marshall
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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ipital small, usually smaller than the inter-parietal; temple covered with irregular flat scales,among which a masseteric is often, and a tympanicconstantly, distinct. Gular fold feebly marked, orabsent. 14 to 21 gular scales on a line betweenthe collar and the third pair of chin shields ; collarwith serrated edge, composed of 7 or 9 plates. Dorsalscales hexagonal, longer than broad, more or lessdistinctly keeled, not or but sHghtly imbricate, some-what smaller than the laterals, which are smooth;nuchal scales roundish, smooth, or nearly so; 2lateral scales correspond to the length of a ventralplate; 26 to 37 scales across the middle of thebody. Ventral plates in 6 or 8 longitudinal series,the second series on each side from the median ventralline the largest; 24 to 30 transverse series. Twosemicircles of scales border the pre-anal shield. Theadpressed limbs meet, or the hind-limb reaches thewrist or the elbow. Foot usually longer than thehead. Femoral pores, 7 to 13. Tail thick, once
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SAND LIZARD. \Facingf>. 93. SPECIFIC CHARACTEES OF BRITISH LIZARDS 93 and two-fifths to once and two-thirds as long as headand body; caudal scales large, upper strongly keeledand pointed posteriorly. Brown, yellowish, or reddishabove in the adult, with small darker and lighterspots; frequently a blackish vertebral streak and adark lateral band edged with yellowish; lower surfacesorange or vermilion in the male, largely spotted withblack; yellow or pale orange in the female, imma-culate or scantily spotted with black. Newly-bornyoung almost black, which colouration sometimes per-sists in the adult. Total length . . . . Head Width of head From end of snout to fore-limbFroip end of snout to ventFore-limb. . . . .Hind-limb . . . .Tail Male. Female. Mm. Mm. 151 178 12 12 9 9 19 23 53 73 17 18 24 25 98 105 Northern and Central Europe; Northern Asia. Lacerta agilis, the Sand Lizard. Habit stouter, snout shorter than in L. viridis.Eostral not touching the nostril; 1 or 2 post-nasals ; freq

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