Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter, 1065

GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289), pp. 1-130 : 17

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https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457423

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scientific name

Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter
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Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter

Amphisbaena mitchelli Procter, 1923: 1065 . TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil; Para , Island of Marajo (10 ° 00 ̍ S, 49 ° 30 ̍ W). Holotype: BMNH 1923.11.9.90:RR1946.8.2.31.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1963b: 3, 1964e: 192). See also Amaral (1937d), Cunha and Nascimento (1982, distribution), Duellman (1989), Elter (1981), and Hoogmoed and De Avila­Pires (1991, variation).

RANGE: Mouth of the Amazon (Tocantins?), Marajo Island, and Belem, Para, Brazil.

Procter, J. B. 1923. On new and rare reptiles from South America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1923: 1061 - 1068. [p. 1065; Amphisbaena alba, A. mitchelli]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Amphisbaenidae

Genus

Amphisbaena