Aprasia

Aprasia is a genus of lizards in the family Pygopodidae. The genus is endemic to Australia.<ref name=RDB>Template:NRDB genus</ref> The species in the genus Aprasia are worm-like, burrowing lizards. At least four of the species are oviparous.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Species

The genus Aprasia contains the following species:<ref name=RDB/>

• Aprasia aurita Template:Small – eared worm-lizard, mallee worm-lizard
• Aprasia clairae Template:Small
• Aprasia haroldi Template:Small – Shark Bay worm-lizard
• Aprasia inaurita Template:Small – mallee worm-lizard, red-tailed worm-lizard
• Aprasia litorea Template:Small – Gnaraloo worm-lizard
• Aprasia parapulchella Template:Small – granite worm-lizard, pink-tailed worm-lizard
• Aprasia picturata Template:Small
• Aprasia pseudopulchella Template:Small – Flinders Ranges worm-lizard
• Aprasia pulchella Template:Small – pretty worm-lizard
• Aprasia repens Template:Small – sedgelands worm-lizard
• Aprasia rostrata Template:Small – Exmouth worm-lizard, Hermite Island worm-lizard
• Aprasia smithi Template:Small – Zuytdorp worm-lizard
• Aprasia striolata Template:Small – striated worm-lizard
• Aprasia wicherina Template:Small – Wicherina worm-lizard

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

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Genus Aprasia, p. 245).
• Gray JE (1839). Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [First Series] 2: 331–337. (Aprasia, new genus, pp. 331–332).

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