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Amphisbaena gracilis Strauch

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Amphisbaena gracilis Strauch

Amphisbaena gracilis Strauch, 1881, col. 70. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Unbekannt, wahrscheinlich Süd­Amerika’’. Holotype: ZIL 5517.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1967c: species inquirenda). The status of this form is in considerable doubt. See also Gorzula (1985, distribution), Gorzula and Señaris (1999), Hoogmoed and Avila­Pires (1991), and Sponga and Gans (1971, taxonomy).

RANGE: Known from this type only, Venezuela (Bolivar).

Notes

Published as part of GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, pp. 1-130 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289) on page 14, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5361528

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ZIL
Material sample ID
ZIL 5517
Scientific name authorship
Strauch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Amphisbaenidae
Genus
Amphisbaena
Species
gracilis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Strauch, A. 1881. Bemerkungen uber die Eidechsenfamilie der Amphisbaeniden. Memoirs de la Academie Imperiale de Science de St. Petersbourg 11: 355 - 479. [also in: Bulletin de la Academie Imperiale de Science de St. Petersbourg 28 (8): 45 - 132; all]
  • Sponga, G. M. A., and C. Gans. 1971. Amphisbaena gracilis Strauch rediscovered (Amphisbaenia: Reptilia). Copeia 1971 (4): 589 - 595. [all]