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vivipara

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Vi`vip´a`ra
n. pl.1.(Zool.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; - opposed to Ovipara.

vivipara
pl. animals whose young are bom live, as mammals. — viviparity, n.viviparous, adj.
See also: Zoology
pl. animals that bear living young. Cf. ovipara, ovovivipara. — viviparity, n. — viviparous, adj.
See also: Animals


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Lacerta Vivipara (Common Lizard): Common lizards prefer warm sheltered habitats with nearby dry places where they can bask in the sunshine.
caudomarginatus, which is conspicuously more abundant, and sometimes with two species of poeciliids, Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider and Phalloptychus januarius (Hensel), an eleotridine gobiid, Dormitator maculatus (Bloch), and the callichthyid Callichthys callichthys (Linnaeus).
He and his colleagues describe experiments with the common lizard, Lacerta vivipara, in the May Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
 
 
 
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