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Sheltopusik
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Anguidae
Genus:
Pseudopus
Species:
P. apodus
Binomial name
Pseudopus apodus
(Pallas, 1775)
Synonyms[2]
Lacerta apoda — Pallas, 1775
Pseudopus serpentinus — Merrem, 1820
Ophisaurus apus — Boulenger, 1885
Ophisaurus apodus — Mertens & L. Müller, 1928
Pseudopus apodus — Klembara, 1979
Two sheltopusiks fighting (video).Close up of a sheltopusik in a zoo in Japan (video).
The sheltopusik[3]/ˌʃɛltəˈpjuːzɪk/ (Pseudopus apodus), also commonly called Pallas's glass lizard,[4] the European legless lizard, or the European glass lizard, is a species of large glass lizard found from Southern Europe to Central Asia.
Sheltopusik at the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park
^Aghasyan, A.; Avci, A.; Tuniyev, B.; Crnobrnja-Isailovic, J.; Lymberakis, P.; Andrén, C.; Cogalniceanu, D.; Wilkinson, J.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Üzüm, N.; Orlov, N.L.; Podloucky, R.; Tuniyev, S.; Kaya, U.; Disi, A.M.; Hraoui-Bloquet, S.; Sadek, R.; Tok, V.; Ugurtas, I.H.; Sevinç, M.; Haxhiu, I.; Borkin, L.; Shestapol, A.; Dujsebayeva, T.; Golynsky, E.; Chirikova, M.; Nuridjanov, D. (2021). "Pseudopus apodus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T157263A745759. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T157263A745759.en. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
^"Pseudopus apodus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^Also spelled scheltopusik, sheltopusick, scheltopusick, sheltopusic, or scheltopusic.
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudopus apodus, p. 199).
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