Bipedidae

Taxobox
name = Bipedidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Amphisbaenia
familia = Bipedidae
genus = "Bipes"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See Text

Bipedidae, are a family of amphisbaenians. They are found only in Mexico. Ajolotes are carnivorous, burrowing reptiles, but unlike other species of amphisbaenian, they possess two stubby forelimbs placed far forward on the body. The shovel-like limbs are used to scrape away soil while burrowing through the soil, in a similar manner to a molecite book |editor=Cogger, H.G. & Zweifel, R.G.|author= Gans, Carl|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|pages= 216-217|isbn= 0-12-178560-2] .

The family contains only one genus, comprising four species:

Bipedidae
* Genus: "Bipes"
** "Bipes alvarezi"
** "Bipes biporus"
** "Bipes canaliculatus"
** "Bipes tridactylus"

References

[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Bipes.html#Bipes Animal Diversity Web]