Amphisbaena bahiana Vanzolini, 1964
Cobra-de-Duas-Cabeças, Cobra-Cega
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Globally Rediscovered (Dal Vechio et al., 2018)
Distribution & Habitat
Bahia, Brazil
Type locality: ‘‘Vila Nova, Bahia, Brazil’’
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Vanzolini, P. E. (1964). Amphisbaena bahiana species nov., p. 1. In: Brown, W. L. Jnr. (ed.). Pilot Register of Zoology (card no. 8). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University.
Other references:
Cunha, O. R. (1961). Lacertílios da Amazônia Os lagartos da Amazônia brasileira, com especial referência aos representados na Coleção do Museu Goeldi. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Nova Série Zoologia 39: 1-189.
Dal Vechio, Francisco, Texeira, Mauro, Jr., Mott, Tamí and Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut. (2018). Rediscovery of the poorly known Amphisbaena bahiana Vanzolini, 1964 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae), with data on its phylogenetic placement, external morphology and natural history. South American Journal of Herpetology 13(3): 238-248. https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-16-00053.1
Gans, Carl. (1964). The South American species of Amphisbaena with a vertically keeled tail (Reptilia, Amphisbaenidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 45(3/5): 387-416.
Gans, Carl. (2005). Checklist and bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the world. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130.
Gemel, R., Gassner, G. and Schweiger, S. (2019). Katalog der typen der herpetologischen sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33-248
Gonzalez, R. C. et al. (2020). Lista dos nomes populares dos répteis no Brasil – primeira versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9(2): 121-214.
Mott, Tamí and Vieites, David R. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics reveals extreme morphological homoplasy in Brazilian worm lizards challenging current taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(2): 190-200.
Ribeiro, Leonardo B., Gomides, Samuel C. and Costa, Henrique C. (2018). A new species of Amphisbaena from northeastern Brazil (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae). Journal of Herpetology 52(2): 234-241.
Ribeiro, Leonardo B., Gomides, Samuel C. and Costa, Henrique C. (2020). A new worm lizard species (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae: Amphisbaena) with non-autotomic tail, from northeastern Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 54(1): 9-18.
Ribeiro, Síria, Santos Jr AP, Martins IG, Oliveira ECS, Graboski R, Barbosa Da Silveira T, Benício MHM, Vaz-Silva W. (2024). A new four-pored Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) from the north of Espinhaço Mountain Range, Brazil. ZooKeys 1213: 1-27. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1213.122265
Silveira, A. L., da Rocha, C., Nogueira, C. de C., Werneck, F., de Moura, G. J. B., Winck, G., Ribeiro Júnior, M. A., Kiefer, M., de Freitas, M. A., Hoogmoed, M. S., Tinôco, M. S. T., Valadão, R., Cardoso Vieira, R., Perez Maciel, R., Gomes Faria, R., Recoder, R., D'Ávila, R., Torquato da Silva, S., de Barcelos Ribeiro, S. and Avila-Pires, T. C. S. (2021). Amphisbaena bahiana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T75159135A154324845. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T75159135A154324845.en. Accessed on 29 October 2024.
Vanzolini, P. E. (1992). Cercolophia, a new genus for the species of Amphisbaenia with a terminal vertical keel on the tail (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 37(27): 401-412.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/24406/amphisbaena-bahiana
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/Amphisbaena/bahiana