Biology:Moroccan worm lizard
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Short description: Species of amphisbaenian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Blanidae |
| Genus: | Blanus |
| Species: | B. mettetali
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| Blanus mettetali Bons, 1963
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The Moroccan worm lizard (Blanus mettetali) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is endemic to Morocco.[3]
Etymology
The specific name, mettetali, is in honor of a Mr. Mettetal who was head of the Laboratory of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Morocco.[4]
Habitat
The natural habitats of B. mettetali are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, arable land, and pastureland.
Conservation status
B. mettetali is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- ↑ Miras, J.A.M.; Joger, U.; Pleguezuelos, J.; Slimani, T. (2006). "Blanus mettetali". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61470A12472055. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61470A12472055.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61470/12472055. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ↑ "Blanus mettetali ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Busack, Stephen D. (1988). "Biochemical and Morphological Differentiation in Spanish and Moroccan Populations of Blanus and the Description of a New Species from Northern Morocco (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae)". Copeia 1988 (1): 101–109. doi:10.2307/1445928.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Blanus mettetali, p. 177).
Further reading
- Bons, Jacques (1963). "Notes sur Blanus cinereus (Vandelli), description d'une sous-espèce Marocaine: Blanus cinereus mettetali ssp. nov." Bulletin de la Société des Sciences naturelles et physiques du Maroc (1-2): 95–107. (in French).
Phylogeographical patterns
- "Phylogeographical and speciation patterns in subterranean worm lizards of the genus Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae)". Molecular Ecology 16 (7): 1519–1531. 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03248.x. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 17391273.
- Vaconcelos, Raquel; Harris, D. James; Carretero, Miguel (2006). "Phylogeography of the genus Blanus (worm lizards) in Iberia and Morocco based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers — preliminary analysis". Amphibia-Reptilia 27 (3): 339–346. doi:10.1163/156853806778190033. ISSN 0173-5373.
Wikidata ☰ Q1766811 entry
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