Amphisbaena Linné

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 : 9

Genus Amphisbaena Linné

Amphisbaena Linne´, 1758: 229. Type species: Amphisbaena fuliginosa , by first reviser (Fitzinger, 1843: 22).

Glyptoderma Fitzinger, 1843: 22 . Type species: Amphisbaena vermicularis Wagler , by original designation.

Typhloblanus Fitzinger, 1843: 22 . Type species: Amphisbaena coeca (= A. caeca Cuvier ), by original designation.

Sarea Gray, 1844: 71 . Type species: Amphisbaena caeca Cuvier (= A. ridleyi Boulenger ; cf. Gans and Alexander, 1962: 82), by original designation.

Diphalus Cope, 1861b: 75 . Type species: Diphalus fenestratus , by monotypy.

Aporarchus Cope, 1885: 189 . Type species: Aporarchus prunicolor , by monotypy.

See discussion in Gans and Alexander (1962: 82) for American forms, in Loveridge (1941, 1948, 1957), R. Laurent (1947), and Vanzolini (1951b, MS) for African forms. Loveridge retained most African species of this general grouping in the genus Amphisbaena , except for two placed in Placogaster .