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ADW: Anguidae: Information (579 words) |
 | Characters uniting Anguidae include a reduced supratemporal arch, a lateral fold in the skin (in most taxa), striations on the medial faces of the tooth crowns, and body osteoderms on the ventral skin. |
| Anguidae encompasses a large diversity of body types; several species of Anguidae are quite small and limbless, others are limbless but rather long, while still others (mostly gerrhonotines) have strong but short limbs and relatively large triangular heads with powerful jaws. |
| Anguidae belongs to the larger group Diploglossa (=Anguioidea), which also includes Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards) and Anniellidae, although Diploglossa is probably not a natural group. |
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