Turkish worm lizard
| Turkish worm lizard | |
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| File:BennyTrapp Türkische Netzwühle Blanus strauchi.jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Amphisbaenia |
| Family: | Blanidae |
| Genus: | Blanus |
| Species: | B. strauchi
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| Binomial name | |
| Blanus strauchi (Bedriaga, 1884)
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The Turkish worm lizard (Blanus strauchi) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is native to Southeast Europe and the Middle East. There are two recognized subspecies.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The specific name, strauchi, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Alexander Strauch.[3]
Geographic range
[edit | edit source]B. strauchi is found in Greece, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.[2]
Habitat
[edit | edit source]The preferred natural habitat of B. strauchi is shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to 1,400 m (4,600 ft).[1]
Reproduction
[edit | edit source]Subspecies
[edit | edit source]Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.
- Blanus strauchi bedriagae Boulenger, 1884
- Blanus strauchi strauchi (Bedriaga, 1884)
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Blanus.
References
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- ^ a b c Blanus strauchi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 February 2019.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Blanus strauchi, p. 256).
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Bedriaga J (1884). "Amphisbaena cinerea Vand. und A. Strauchi v. Bedr., Erster Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Doppelschleichen ". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 50 (1): 23–41. (Amphisbaena strauchi, new species, pp. 35–41, Figures 4–6). (in German).
- Bedriaga J (1884). "Nachträgliche Bemerkung über Amphisbaena Strauchi v. Bedr." Zoologischer Anzeiger 7: 346. (in German).
- Boulenger GA (1884). "Descriptions of new Species of Reptiles in the British Museum.—Part II." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 13: 396–398. (Blanus bedriagae, new species, p. 396).
- Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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