I tell you all this because I don't want to pose as a kind of apodal angel of mercy.
"The Red Planet"
William J. Locke
The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo, Scincus, and at last the true lizards.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz
Theories sufficient have been hazarded, and books written without number from the days of old Aristotle, who arranged them in three great divisions, the Cetaceous, the Cartilaginous, and the Spinous; down to Gmelin, who divided them into six orders, the apodal, the Jugular, the Thoracic, the Abdominal, the Branchiostagous, and the Chondropterygious.
"Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches"
Henri de Crignelle