Amphisbaenia - Wikipedia
Amphisbaenians have a distinctive skin made up of rings of scales (annuli) that form a tube in which the loosely attached trunk of the body moves.
A New Amphisbaena With Chevron-Shaped Anterior Body Annuli …
2009年7月22日 · The high number of body annuli, the presence of chevron-shaped anterior body annuli, and the fusion of frontal scales distinguish Amphisbaena supernumeraria sp. nov. from its congeners.
Amphisbaenia - UCL
They have an extremely distinctive skin, consisting of conspicuous rings of scales, called annuli, that encircle the trunk. Only loosely connected to the main trunk, this specialised integument forms a tube in which the animal can move forwards and backwards.
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The high number of body annuli, the presence of chevron-shaped anterior body annuli, and the fusion of frontal scales distinguish Amphisbaena supernumeraria sp. nov. from its congeners.
A new four-pored Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia ...
Body annuli well demarcated, first and second annuli without enlarged dorsal segments. Segments become regularly rectangular toward posterior portion of body and progressively longer than wide, and smaller in size, and larger towards midventral areas starting from …
Reidentification of a 19th century specimen reveals the first …
The presence of 183 body annuli and 20 tail annuli would be a new lower limit for the species, whose known range is 185–199 body annuli and 23–25 tail annuli (Costa et al. 2019b; Costa 2022). Additionally, the species is known from mountainous areas at the eastern limit of the Atlantic Forest, in contact with the Cerrado, about 240 km north ...
A new species of small Amphisbaena (reptila : amphisbaenia ...
A new species of Amphisbaena is described that inhabits in the Orinoquian region of Colombia and can be distinguished from their congeners by characters combination of number of preocloacal pores, absence of malar scale, postgenial scales and body and caudal annuli counts.
Amphisbaena alba - The Reptile Database
Specimens have 198 to 248 body annuli; 13 to 21 caudal annuli; 65 to 85 (30-42 dorsal; 35-46 ventral) segments per midbody annulus; and four to 10 precloacal pores. (Gans 1962) Additional details (3985 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors.
2023年7月29日 · Amphisbaenia, frequently abundant but hard to find due to their fossorial habits [8]. The Sub-Order Amphisbaenia includes more than 200 living species, most of them occurring in Brazil [9-16]. In Brazil, The genus Amphisbaena (Family Amphisbaenidae) has the greatest number of species in the Sub-Order, 70 in total [17], with the number of known
A new Amphisbaena with chevron-shaped anterior body annuli
2009年7月22日 · The high number of body annuli, the presence of chevron-shaped anterior body annuli, and the fusion of frontal scales distinguish Amphisbaena supernumeraria sp. nov. from its congeners.
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