Aprasia Explained

Aprasia is a genus of lizards in the family Pygopodidae. The genus is endemic to Australia. The species in the genus Aprasia are worm-like, burrowing lizards. At least four of the species are oviparous.^[1]

Species

The genus Aprasia contains the following species:

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

Notes and References

1. Webb . Jonathan K. . Shine . Richard . 1994 . Feeding habits and reproductive biology of Australian pygopodid lizards of the genus Aprasia . Copeia . 1994 . 2 . 390–398 . 10.2307/1446986. 1446986 .