Baker's worm lizard
| Baker's worm lizard | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Amphisbaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphisbaena |
| Species: | A. bakeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphisbaena bakeri Stejneger, 1904
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Baker's worm lizard (Amphisbaena bakeri) is a species of worm lizard in the family Amphisbaenidae.[2]
Geographic range
[edit]A. bakeri is endemic to Puerto Rico.[3]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred habitat of A. bakeri is forest at altitudes of 0–600 m (0–1,969 ft).[1]
Reproduction
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The specific name, bakeri, is in honor of Arthur B. Baker, a zoologist with the United States Fish Commission in Puerto Rico, who collected the type specimen.[5]
See also
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- List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico
- Fauna of Puerto Rico
- List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico
References
[edit]- ^ a b Joglar R, Thomas R (2016). "Amphisbaena bakeri (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T74854398A115480034. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T74854398A75171276.en. Downloaded on 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Amphisbaena ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
- ^ "Metazoa13".
- ^ Species Amphisbaena bakeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 15).
Further reading
[edit]- Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 555).
- Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 166).
- Stejneger L (1904). "The Herpetology of Porto [sic] Rico." pp. 549–724. In: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office. 739 pp. ("Amphisbæna bakeri, new species", pp. 681–683).
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