The crooked worm lizard (''Amphisbaena camura'') is a
worm lizard
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species
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in the
genus
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Amphisbaena
The amphisbaena (, , or , plural: amphisbaenae; grc, ἀμφίσβαινα) is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. The creature is alternatively called the amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, am ...
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Geographic range
''A. camura'' is found in
Bolivia
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Brazil
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Paraguay
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["''Amphisbaena camura'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.]
References
Further reading
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Cope ED (1862). "Catalogues of the REPTILES obtained during the Explorations of the Parana, Paraguay, Vermejo and Uruguay
icRivers, by Capt. Thos. J. Page, U. S. N.; and of those procured by Lieut. N. Michler, U. S. Top. Eng., Commander of the Expedition conducting the Survey of the Atrato River. ''Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia'' 14: 346-359 + errata and addenda on p. 594. (''Amphisbæna camura'', new species, p. 350.)
camura
Reptiles described in 1862
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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