''Amphisbaena hastata'' 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 ...
''.
[The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.]
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
,
''hastata'', is
Latin
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for "spear-shaped".
Geographic range
It is found in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
in the state of
Bahia
Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (sta ...
.
See also
*
List of reptiles of Brazil
Total number of species = 976
''Nota bene'': In the following list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the genus to which it is currently assigned.
Testudines Cheloniid ...
References
Further reading
*
Vanzolini, P.E. 1991. Two new small species of ''Amphisbaena'' from the fossil dune field of the middle Rio São Francisco, State of Bahia, Brasil (Reptilia, Amphisbaenidae). ''Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo'' 37 (17): 259–276.
External links
hastata
Taxa named by Paulo Vanzolini
Reptiles described in 1991
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