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Baker's worm lizard
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Amphisbaenidae
Genus: Amphisbaena
Species: A. bakeri
Binomial name
Amphisbaena bakeri
Stejneger, 1904

Baker's worm lizard (Amphisbaena bakeri) is a species of worm lizard in the family Amphisbaenidae.

Geographic range

A. bakeri is endemic to Puerto Rico.

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. bakeri is forest at altitudes of 0–600 m (0–1,969 ft).

Reproduction

A. bakeri is oviparous.

Etymology

The specific name, bakeri, is in honor of Arthur B. Baker, a zoologist with the United States Fish Commission in Puerto Rico, who collected the type specimen.

See also

References

  1. ^ Joglar R, Thomas R (2016). "Amphisbaena bakeri (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T74854398A115480034. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T74854398A75171276.en. Downloaded on 11 March 2019.
  2. "Amphisbaena ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
  3. "Metazoa13".
  4. Species Amphisbaena bakeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 15).

Further reading

  • Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 555).
  • Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 166).
  • Stejneger L (1904). "The Herpetology of Porto Rico." pp. 549–724. In: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office. 739 pp. ("Amphisbæna bakeri, new species", pp. 681–683).


Taxon identifiers
Amphisbaena bakeri


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