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Amphisbaena occidentalis Cope

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Amphisbaena occidentalis Cope

Amphisbaena occidentalis Cope, 1876: 176. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Valley of Jequetepeque,’’ north coast of Peru (07 ° 22 ̍ S, 79 ° 34 ̍ W). Syntypes: ANSP 11355–11358.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1961d: 7). See also Boulenger (1890a), Cope (1876, 1892a), and Stejneger (1911).

RANGE: Coastal plain of Peru, from Chimbote to Chiclay (CG 2767, plus three in a private collection in Lima).

Notes

Published as part of GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, pp. 1-130 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289) on page 18, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5361528

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Biodiversity

Family
Amphisbaenidae
Genus
Amphisbaena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Cope
Species
occidentalis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Stejneger, L. 1911. Description of a new amphisbaenoid lizard from Peru. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum 41 (1856): 283 - 284. [all; Amphisbaena townsendi]