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Cope's worm lizard
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Amphisbaenidae
Genus: Amphisbaena
Species: A. fenestrata
Binomial name
Amphisbaena fenestrata
(Cope, 1861)
Synonyms

Cope's worm lizard (Amphisbaena fenestrata) is a worm lizard species in the genus Amphisbaena.

Geographic range

It is found in the Virgin Islands on the following islands: St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola, Great Camanoe, and Virgin Gorda.

References

  1. Platenberg, R. 2016. Amphisbaena fenestrata (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T74855567A115480568. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T74855567A75171311.en. Downloaded on 14 March 2019.
  2. ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  3. ^ Schwartz, A., and R. Thomas. 1975. A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Amphisbaena fenestrata, p. 167.)
  4. "Amphisbaena". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 20, 2010.

Further reading

  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II...Amphisbænidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers.) xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I.- XXIV. (Amphisbæna fenestrata, pp. 449–450.)
  • Cope, E.D. Some remarks defining the following species of Reptilia Squamata. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1861: 75–76. (Diphalus fenestratus, p. 76.)
Taxon identifiers
Amphisbaena fenestrata


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