Sheltopusik

The sheltopusik, also spelled scheltopusik, sheltopusick, scheltopusick, sheltopusic, or scheltopusic (Pseudopus apodus), and also commonly known as '''Pallas's glass lizard, the European legless lizard, or the European glass lizard', is a species of large glass lizard found from Southern Europe to Central Asia.

==Taxonomy== The sheltopusik was previously included in the genus Ophisaurus, but has since been placed in its own genus Pseudopus. It was originally described in 1775 by Peter Simon Pallas as Lacerta apoda.