Calyptommatus is a genus of Brazilian lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.
The genus shows extreme reduction of hind limbs and absence of fore limbs. Also prefrontals, frontals, supraoculars, and frontoparietals are absent.
Species
There are five species:
- Calyptommatus confusionibus <small>Rodrigues, Zaher, and Curcio, 2001</small>
- Calyptommatus frontalis <small>Recoder, Marques-Souza, Silva-Soares, Ramiro, Castro, & Rodrigues, 2022</small>
- Calyptommatus leiolepis <small>Rodrigues, 1991</small>
- Calyptommatus nicterus <small>Rodrigues, 1991</small>
- Calyptommatus sinebrachiatus <small>Rodrigues, 1991</small>
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