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Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter, 1923: 1065

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Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter

Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter, 1923: 1065. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil; Para, Island of Marajo (10 ° 00 ̍ S, 49 ° 30 ̍ W). Holotype: BMNH 1923.11.9.90:RR1946.8.2.31.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1963b: 3, 1964e: 192). See also Amaral (1937d), Cunha and Nascimento (1982, distribution), Duellman (1989), Elter (1981), and Hoogmoed and De Avila­Pires (1991, variation).

RANGE: Mouth of the Amazon (Tocantins?), Marajo Island, and Belem, Para, Brazil.

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 17, 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
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Procter, 1923:
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Amphisbaenidae
Genus
Amphisbaena
Species
mitchelli
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter, 1065 sec. GANS, 2005

References

  • Procter, J. B. 1923. On new and rare reptiles from South America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1923: 1061 - 1068. [p. 1065; Amphisbaena alba, A. mitchelli]