Barkudia insularis
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| Barkudia insularis Annandale, 1917 |
Barkudia insularis is a limbless lizard thought to have become extinct long ago. It was discovered by a Zoological Survey of India team, while looking for a rare mangrove plant on Barkud Island in Chilka Lake, Orissa, India. This is the only place in the world where this unique species can be found. The lizard looks like a huge earthworm. It lives in the sub-stratas of the soil and usually live on small arthropods.
This reptile is sometimes called the "legless skink."
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- World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). Barkudia insularis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- Annandale, N. 1917 Rec.Ind. Mus. 13: 20
- Biswas, S. or Acharjyo, L.N. (??) 1979 A Note on the Distribution of Barkudia insularis, a Rare Limbless Lizard from Orissa J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 76: 524-525
- Das, Indraneil; Dattagupta, Basudeb 1997 Rediscovery of the holotypes of Ophisops jerdoni Blyth, 1853 and Barkudia insularis Annandale, 1917. Hamadryad 22 (1): 53-55
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