User:Christian Armstrong/Legless geckos

Anniella Eublepharidae

''Anniella Eublepharidae or know as Baja California Legless Gecko.

A small slender lizard with no legs, a shovel-shaped snout, smooth shiny scales, and a blunt tail. Sometimes confused for a snake. All geckos, excluding the Eublepharidae family, have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. It has short fangs that are fixed in an erect position. It often chews to release its venom into a wound. Its venom is very powerful. The venom is neurotoxic, causing respiratory paralysis in the victim, who succumbs to suffocation. They make their homes in dry grassland, in shrubby forests on hillsides, or in nearby areas that have boulders or burrows where they can hide. They rarely bite humans, unless provoked, it's favored habitat is the bedroom. For much of the time it remains dormant, but don't let this reptile deceive you! On being approached it will be roused into action, its bite is life threatening and its fearsome venom has few known antidotes. It is found throughout the southern region of the Mexico's Baja Peninsula.