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title: "San Diegan Legless Lizard"
description: "Anniella stebbinsi — Rettili. Anniella stebbinsi, the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/san-diegan-legless-lizard
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# San Diegan Legless Lizard

> Anniella stebbinsi — Rettili. Anniella stebbinsi, the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless.

- Scientific name: *Anniella stebbinsi*
- Category: `reptiles` (Rettili)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1314
- Wikidata: [Q15293350](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15293350)
- iNaturalist taxon: [479459](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/479459)

## Names

- en: San Diegan Legless Lizard
- es: Lagartija sin patas del sur de California

## Countries with the most observations

US (1141), MX (98)

## Summary

Anniella stebbinsi, the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless. Not much is known about the lizard as a unique species, with most observations conducted while it was not recognised as separate from Anniella pulchra, the Californian legless lizard.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniella_stebbinsi

## Photo

![San Diegan Legless Lizard](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/san-diegan-legless-lizard/medium.jpg)

Photo: Diego Blanco · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263235533

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/san-diegan-legless-lizard?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).