#bipedidae

[herpsandbirds]

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, Baja California Sur, México

photograph by Angel Marquez

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Have you done the Mexican mole lizard yet?

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Have you seen the Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)?

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Voting ended onMar 21

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Mexican Mole Lizard

[animalids]

Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)

Photo by Michael Cravens

[herpsandbirds]

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, endemic to the Baja California peninsula of Mexico

This 2 limbed lizard is fossorial (burrowing underground). They breed and lay their eggs underground.

It is one of only 3 amphisbaenians that have limbs.

They are the pinkest when young, and turn whiter as the mature.

Though they are rarely seen, they may actually be quite common in their range.

photograph by SA BL

[herpsandbirds]

Can you show us the weirdest animal in Mexico?

Paxon:

Why yes! I have posted this long ago, but it's time to show them off again!!!

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, endemic to the Baja California peninsula of Mexico

This 2 limbed lizard is fossorial (burrowing underground). They breed and lay their eggs underground.

It is one of only 3 amphisbaenians that have limbs.

They are the pinkest when young, and turn whiter as the mature.

Though they are rarely seen, they may actually be quite common in their range.

As with many burrowing creatures shaped like this (such as legless lizards and caecilians), there is a belief among some local people that they enter the anuses of people who defecate outside… this is, of course, not true. (Many of these animals are called “tapaculo”).

photos by Carl J Franklin, Dante Fenolio, & Mike Pingleton

photograph by Adam G. Clause

[herpsandbirds]

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

photograph by Angel Marquez

[herpsandbirds]

hello, can we have some Mexican mole lizards? As a little treat? They're so stinking cute

There's always time for MOLE LIZARDS!!!

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, endemic to the Baja California peninsula of Mexico

This 2 limbed lizard is fossorial (burrowing underground). They breed and lay their eggs underground.

It is one of only 3 amphisbaenians that have limbs.

They are the pinkest when young, and turn whiter as the mature.

Though they are rarely seen, they may actually be quite common in their range.

photograph by CaudateJake

photographs by Mike Pingleton

photograph by Carl J Franklin