The Urucum worm lizard (Amphisbaena leeseri) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is native to central South America.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Amphisbaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphisbaena |
| Species: | A. leeseri
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphisbaena leeseri Gans, 1964
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Etymology
editThe specific name, leeseri, is in honor of Leo Leeser (1871–1942), who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, but whose estate funded the Leo Leeser Center for Tropical Biology.[2]
Geographic range
editA. leeseri is found in southwestern Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul state) and in adjacent northern Paraguay.[3]
Habitat
editDescription
editA. leeseri is small for its genus. It has 216–240 body annuli (rings of scales), and 14–16 tail annuli.[3]
Behavior
editA. leeseri is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Silveira AL et al. (20 authors) (2021). "Amphisbaena leeseri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T63488494A63488505.pt. Accessed on 11 May 2024. (in English and Portuguese).
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Amphisbaena leeseri, p. 154).
- ^ a b c Amphisbaena leeseri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 February 2019.
Further reading
edit- Cacciali P, Scott NJ, Ortíz ALA, Fitzgerald LA, Smith P (2016). "The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist". Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Special Publication (11): 1–373.
- Gans C (1964). "New Records of Amphisbaena sivestrii Boulenger, and the Description of a New Two-pored Species from the Northern Chaco". Copeia 1964 (3): 553–561. (Amphisbaena leeseri, new species).
- Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (289): 1–130. (Amphisbaena leeseri, p. 16).
- Vanzolini PE (2002). "An aid to the identification of the South American species of Amphisbaena (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo 42 (15): 351–362.
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