Pseudopus

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Early Miocene|Recent|earliest=Oligocene}}

| image = Pseudopus apodus, West Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR imported from iNaturalist photo 282395812.jpg

| taxon = Pseudopus

| authority = Merrem, 1820

| type_species = Lacerta apoda

| type_species_authority = Pallas, 1775

}}

Pseudopus is a genus of anguid lizards that are native to Eurasia. One extant species remains, the sheltopusik,{{NRDB genus|genus=Pseudopus|accessdate=27 May 2014}} with four fossil species. They are the most robust members of subfamily Anguinae,{{cite journal |author1=Klembara, Jozef |author2=Madelaine Böhme |author3=Michael Rummel |date=2010|title=Revision of the anguine lizard Pseudopus laurillardi (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Miocene of Europe, with comments on paleoecology|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=84|issue=2 |pages=159–196|doi=10.1666/09-033R1.1|bibcode=2010JPal...84..159K |s2cid=130738857 }}{{cite journal |author=Jozef Klembara |year=2015 |title=New finds of anguines (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Early Miocene of Northwest Bohemia (Czech Republic) |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=171–195 |doi=10.1007/s12542-014-0226-4|bibcode=2015PalZ...89..171K |s2cid=129436097 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/846892 }} with the largest species †P. pannonicus growing up to 2 metres in length.{{Cite journal |last=Loréal |first=Erwan |last2=Georgalis |first2=Georgios L. |last3=Čerňanský |first3=Andrej |date=2025 |title=(Squamata), the largest known anguid lizard—Redescription of the type material and new specimens from the Neogene and Quaternary of Hungary and Poland |url=https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25525 |journal=The Anatomical Record |language=en |volume=308 |issue=1 |pages=45–113 |doi=10.1002/ar.25525 |issn=1932-8494|url-access=subscription }} The oldest fossils of the group date to the Early Miocene, but there are possible Oligocene records.{{Cite journal|last1=Villa|first1=Andrea|last2=Delfino|first2=Massimo|date=November 2019|title=Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview|journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology|language=en|volume=138|issue=2|pages=177–211|doi=10.1007/s13358-018-0172-y|issn=1664-2384|doi-access=free|bibcode=2019SwJP..138..177V }}