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THE Gila Lizard of Arizona and Sonora has anterior, deciduous, grooved teeth, which communicate by ducts with large glands within the angle of the lower jaw —an apparatus so strongly resembling the poison-fangs of serpents as to suggest that this lizard has venomous properties. It is said by the natives of Mexico to be very poisonous, but others again have declared that it is perfectly harmless. One specimen sent to Sir John Lubbock killed a frog in a few minutes and a guinea-pig in three minutes.
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The Poisonous Lizard 2 . Nature 28, 83 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028083a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028083a0