Snakes are legless.
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species
) is also known to eat legless lizards. In all cases, legless lizards are a minor component of the predator’s diet.
Differentiating from snakes.
Legless lizards are often killed due to their similar appearance to snakes. A number of external characteristics can be used to distinguish legless lizards (including the hooded scaly-foot) from snakes:
- Flap-footed lizards have vestigial hindlimbs
- Legless lizards have broad, fleshy tongues, dissimilar from the forked tongues of snakes
- Most legless lizards have external