Biology:Brongersma's worm snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Amerotyphlops |
| Species: | A. brongersmianus
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| Binomial name | |
| Amerotyphlops brongersmianus Vanzolini, 1976
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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
- List of typhlopid species and subspecies.
- Typhlops by common name.
- Typhlops by taxonomic synonyms.
- Typhlopidae by common name.
- Typhlopidae by taxonomic synonyms.
References
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Amerotyphlops brongersmianus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops brongersmianus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634605. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
- ↑ 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
- Amerotyphlops brongersmianus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 15 August 2014.
Wikidata ☰ Q3013317 entry
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