John,
The California Academy of Sciences maintains an on-line database of major
herpetological collections throughout the world. You can search to see
which museums might have a legless lizard skeleton (though most of the
specimens are probably ethanol preps). The museum abbreviations follow
Leviton (1985).
http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/Comb_Coll_Index/
Leviton, Alan E. et al. 1985. Standards in Herpetology and Ichthyology:
Part I. Standard Symbolic Codes for Institutional Resource Collections in
Herpetology and Ichthyology. Copeia 1985:802-832.
Sincerely,
Barry W. Baker
Forensic Specialist
Herpetology Unit Coordinator
Morphology Section
U.S. National Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
1490 East Main Street
Ashland, Oregon 97520-1310
Phone: 541.482.4191
Fax: 541.482.4989
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Web: http://www.lab.fws.gov
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, Oregon
Co-editor, Zooarchaeology Home Page:
http://207.16.80.151/zooarch/
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