Guide to the galleries of reptiles and fishes in the Department of zoology of the British museum (Natural history) : Illustrated by 101 woodcuts and 1 plan.
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the galleries of reptiles and fishes in the Department of zoology of the British museum (Natural history) : Illustrated by 101 woodcuts and 1 plan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
16/134 page 6
![ases 1-22.] horizontal bar across the temporal region, the firm connection of tbe quadrate bone with the skull and pterygoid bones, biconcave vertebi’se (as in Geckos and many fossil Crocodilians), the presence of a plastron formed of numerous small bones and of uncinate processes to the ribs (as in Birds). Order III. LACERTILIA, or Lizards. The Order of Lizards comprises over 1600 species, which exhibit a great variety of form and structure. Some, like our common Lizards, possess four legs and a long tail, and are endowed with great rapidity of motion ; others, like the Chamae- leons, are arboreal, and have their limbs and tail adapted for climb- ing on the branches of trees ; others, like the Geckos, can ascend smooth vertical surfaces, their toes being provided with special adhesive organs. The limbs may be rudimentary or disappear entirely, as in our common Slowworm, in which case the Lizard assumes the appearance of a Snake; but, in all, rudiments at least of both pectoral and pelvic bones are hidden under the skin. Lizards may be characterized as Reptiles with the skin covered with scales Hind legs of Lizards, to show the gradual abortion. a, Chalcides ocellatus; b, Chalcides mionecton; c, Chalcides tridactylus j d, Lygosoma lineo-punctulatum j e, Chalcides guentheri.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28104663_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
