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| has gloss | eng: Many vertebrates have evolved limbless forms. Reptiles have on a number of occasions evolved into limbless forms - snakes, amphisbaenia, and legless lizards (limb loss in lizards has evolved independently several times). The same is true of amphibians - caecilians, Sirenidae (a clade of salamanders that are limbless except for atrophied front limbs), Amphiumidae (a clade of salamander with extremely atrophied limbs that appear non-functional) and at least two extinct groups (Aïstopoda and Lysorophia). Legless forms of reptiles and amphibians probably evolved so as to be able to move underground or in water more easily. |
| lexicalization | eng: Limbless vertebrates |
| instance of | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium craniate, vertebrate |
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| has gloss | cat: Àpode es diu de : |
| lexicalization | cat: àpode |
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| has gloss | fra: Apode décrit un organisme qui na pas de pieds ou de pattes, qui se déplace par reptation. Ce manque de membre peut sexpliquer par le fait que lespèce nait jamais possédé de pattes ou bien il peut sagir dune évolution secondaire à partir dun ancêtre qui en possédait : Cest le cas : |
| lexicalization | fra: apode |
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| media:img | Anguidae.jpg |
| media:img | Iberian worm lizard.jpg |
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