Biology:Brongersma's worm snake

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Brongersma's worm snake
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Amerotyphlops
Species:
A. brongersmianus
Binomial name
Amerotyphlops brongersmianus
Vanzolini, 1976
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops brongersmai Vanzolini, 1972
  • Typhlops brongersmianus Vanzolini, 1976[1]
    (nomen novum)
  • Amerotyphlops brongersmianus
    — Hedges, 2014.

Brongersma's worm snake (Amerotyphlops brongersmianus) is a harmless blind snake species endemic to South America. No subspecies are currently recognized.[3]

Etymology

The specific name, brongersmianus, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Leo Brongersma.[4]

Geographic range

It is found in South America from the island of Trinidad south through mainland South America (east of the Andes) as far as Buenos Aires Province in Argentina . In between it is also known to occur in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Brazil , Bolivia and Paraguay.

The type locality given is "Barra de Itaipe, Ilheus, Bahia [Salvador]" [Brazil].[1]

Diet

The diet of consists primarily of ants, termites, and possibly other arthropods.

Reproduction

The species is reported to be oviparous.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN:1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN:1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Amerotyphlops brongersmianus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops brongersmianus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634605. Retrieved 31 August 2007. 
  4. 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. (Typhlops brongersmianus, p. 39).

Further reading

  • Boos, Hans E.A. (2001). The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1-58544-116-3. 
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Amerotyphlops brongersmianus, new combination, and type species of Amerotyphlops, new genus, p. 43).
  • Vanzolini PE (1972). "Typhlops brongersmai spec. nov. from the coast of Bahia, Brasil (Serpentes, Typhlopidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen [Leiden] 47 (3): 27-29 + one figure.
  • Vanzolini PE (1976). "Typhlops brongersmianus, a new name for Typhlops brongersmai Vanzolini, 1972, preoccupied (Serpentes, Typhlopidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia [São Paulo] 29 (24): 247.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3013317 entry