Xenopeltis unicolor, Reinwardt, 1827

Palci, Alessandro, Hutchinson, Mark N., Caldwell, Michael W., Smith, Krister T. & Lee, Michael S. Y., 2020, The homologies and evolutionary reduction of the pelvis and hindlimbs in snakes, with the first report of ossified pelvic vestiges in an anomalepidid (Liotyphlops beui), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188, pp. 630-652 : 638

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scientific name	Xenopeltis unicolor
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Xenopeltis unicolor View in CoL Reinwardt , 1827

No pelvic or hindlimb elements are present in Xenopeltis , regardless of sex ( Bellairs, 1950; Underwood 1967; McDowell, 1975; present study).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Squamata
Family	Xenopeltidae
Genus	Xenopeltis

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