Amphisbaena fuliginosa

Amphisbaena fuliginosa
In French Guiana
A. f. bassleri, Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Amphisbaenidae
Genus: Amphisbaena
Species:
A. fuliginosa
Binomial name
Amphisbaena fuliginosa
Synonyms [1]
  • Amphisbaena vulgaris Laurenti, 1768
  • Amphisbaena magnifica Laurenti, 1768
  • Amphisbaena flava Laurenti, 1768
  • Amphisbaena americana Gray, 1844

Amphisbaena fuliginosa, also known as the black-and-white worm lizard, speckled worm lizard or spotted worm lizard,[2] is a species of amphisbaenian in the genus Amphisbaena. The ecology of A. fuliginosa is poorly known due to its fossorial habits.[3] However, this species can be easily distinguished from others because of its characteristic white and black mosaic pattern that covers both the dorsal and ventral side.[3]

  1. ^ "Amphisbaena fuliginosa Linnaeus, 1758". Reptile-reptarium.cz. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  2. ^ M. Wrobel (2004). "Amphisbaena fuliginosa". Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian. London: Elsevier. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-444-51499-8.
  3. ^ a b Paulo Nogueira-Costa; Flávia Vieira de Oliveira Aguiar; Guilherme Ramos da Silva; Mariana Campelo Afonso; José Thiago Barbosa Baldine & Marcos Ferreira Venâncio (2013). "Reptilia, Squamata, Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaena fuliginosa wiedi Vanzolini, 1951: distribution extension". CheckList. 9 (1): 167–168. doi:10.15560/9.1.167.