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Family ANNIELLIDAE 
Anniella pulchra pulchra Gray 
Silvery Footless Lizard 
OrigINAL DescripTion.—Anniella pulchra Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist., ser. 2, 10, 1852, p. 440. 
Type Locaurry.—California. 
Synonym.—Anniella texana. 
Common Names.—Blue Worm-snake, part; Blind Worm; Worm 
Snake, part; Worm Lizard. 
Rance— Chiefly southern coast district. Recorded north to Contra 
Costa County (Van Denburgh, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei., ser. 3, zool., 
4, 1905, p. 48), and San Ardo, Monterey County (Van Denburgh, 
Oce. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., 5, 1897, pp. 117-118) ; east to Bear 
Valley, San Benito County (Van Denburgh, 1897, loc. cit.), Sequoia 
National Park, Tulare County, and between Oil City and Poso Creek, 
in Kern County (Van Denburgh, 1905, loc. cit.) ; to La Canada, near 
Pasadena (Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., 35, 1907, p. 33), 
San Bernardino and San Jacinto (Van Denburgh, 1897, loc. cit.), and 
La Puerta Valley, in eastern San Diego County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
Occurs within the Lower and Upper Sonoran life-zones. Inhabits 
sandy ground; lives beneath rocks in dry washes and in sand dunes. 
Anniella pulchra nigra Fischer 
Black Footless Lizard 
ORIGINAL DescripTioN.—Anniella nigra Fischer, Abh. Nat. Verein 
Hamburg, 9, pt. 1, 1886, pp. 9-10, 1 pl. 
Typr Locauiry—San Diego, California [more likely near Monte- 
rey; see Van Denburgh, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, zool., 4, 1905, 
p. 45]. 
Synonym.—Anniella pulchra, part. 
Common Name.—Blue Worm Snake, part. 
Rance.—Central seaboard. Recorded only from San Francisco 
(Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 [1900], pp. 675, 676), vicinity 
of Monterey: Pacific Grove, Point Pinos, and Carmel Bay (Van 
Denburgh, loc. cit., p. 48), and Marin County (Rivers, Bull. South. 
Calif. Aead. Sci., 1, March, 1902, p. 27). Specimens examined by us 
(in Coll. San Diego Soe. Nat. Hist.) from Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo 
