Anguis

Familia: Anguidae
Subfamilia: Anguinae
Genus:
Species (5): A. cephallonica – A. colchica – A. fragilis – A. graeca – A. veronensis

Anguis Linnaeus, 1758: 227

• Type species: Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Fitzinger (1843: 23).
• Gender: feminine.

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Gvoždík, V., Jandzík, D., Lymberakis, P., Jablonski, D., Moravec, J. 2010. Slow Worm, Anguis fragilis (Reptilia: Anguidae) as a species complex: Genetic structure reveals deep divergences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 460–472. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.007 Reference page. 
• Gvoždik, V., Benkovský, N., Crottini, A., Bellati, A., Moravec, J., Romano, A., Sacchi, R. & Jandzík, D. 2013. An ancient lineage of slow worms, genus Anguis (Squamata: Anguidae), survived in the Italian Peninsula. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 1077–1092. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.004 Reference page. 
• Jablonski, D., Jandzík, D., Mikulíček, P., Džukić, G., Ljubisavljević, K., Taznakov, N., Jelić, D., Thanoy, E., Moravec, J. & Gvoždík, V. 2016. Contrasting evolutionary histories of the legless lizards slow worms (Anguis) shaped by the topography of the Balkan Peninsula. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 99. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0669-1 Reference page. 
• Mikulíček, P., Jablonski, D., Páleník, M., Gvoždík, V. & Jandzík, D. 2018. Characterization of microsatellite markers in the genera Anguis and Pseudopus (Reptilia: Anguidae). Salamandra 54(2): 158–162. PDF Reference page. 
• Lavin, B.R. & Girman, D.J. 2019. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence dating in the Glass Lizards (Anguinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133: 128–140. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.022 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Anguis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 23 May 2025.

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