| Comment | Species of Calyptommatus (sinebrachiatus, leiolepis, and nicterus) show extreme reduction of hind limbs, absence of fore limbs, and absence of prefrontals, frontals, supraoculars and frontoparietals, and are thought to be related to the recently described genus Nothobachia.
Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
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