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Amerotyphlops Costaricensis
The Costa Rica worm snake (''Amerotyphlops costaricensis'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing str ... family.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). References costaricensis Reptiles described in 1963 {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake
Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhlopidae
The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing structure. They live underground in burrows, and since they have no use for vision, their eyes are mostly vestigial. They have light-detecting black eye spots, and teeth occur in the upper jaw. Typhlopids do not have dislocatable lower jaw articulations restricting them to prey smaller than their oral aperture. The tail ends with a horn-like scale. Most of these species are oviparous. Currently, 18 genera are recognized containing over 200 species. Geographic range They are found in most tropical and many subtropical regions all over the world, particularly in Africa, Asia, islands in the Pacific, tropical America, and southeastern Europe. Fossil record Possible Typhlopid skin has been identified in Dominican amber. Genera Type genus Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amerotyphlops
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. *'' Amerotyphlops amoipira'' *'' Amerotyphlops arenensis'' *'' Amerotyphlops brongersmianus'' *'' Amerotyphlops caetanoi'' *'' Amerotyphlops costaricensis'' *'' Amerotyphlops illusorium'' *'' Amerotyphlops lehneri'' *'' Amerotyphlops martis'' *'' Amerotyphlops microstomus'' *'' Amerotyphlops minuisquamus'' *'' Amerotyphlops montanum'' *'' Amerotyphlops paucisquamus'' *'' Amerotyphlops reticulatus'' *'' Amerotyphlops stadelmani'' *'' Amerotyphlops tasymicris'' *'' Amerotyphlops tenuis'' *'' Amerotyphlops trinitatus'' *'' Amerotyphlops tycherus'' *'' Amerotyphlops yonenagae'' ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
