Pletholax

Pletholax (Keeled Legless Lizard) is a legless lizard occurring in Western Australia.

Pletholax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Pygopodidae
Genus:	Pletholax Cope, 1864

Species

Two species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Pletholax gracilis (Cope, 1864) - slender slider
• Pletholax edelensis (Storr, 1978) - Edel land slider

Nota bene: A binomial authority or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pletholax.

References

1. "Pletholax". The Reptile Database. Retrieved May 9, 2020.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. ... Pygopodidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Pletholax gracilis, new combination, p. 245).
• Cope ED (1864). "On the Characters of the higher Groups of REPTILIA SQUAMATA—and especially of the DIPLOGLOSSA". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1864: 224–231. (Pletholax, new genus, p. 229; Pygopus gracilis, new species, p. 229).