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Bipes biporus COPE, 1894

              
 

Higher Taxa

Amphisbaenia, Bipedidae

Subspecies

Common Name

Five-toed Worm Lizard

Synonym

Euchirotes biporus COPE 1894
Euchirotes diporus COPE 1896: 313 (in errore)
Bipes biporus — STEBBINS 1985: 242
Bipes biporus — LINER 1994
Bipes biporus — LINER 2007

Location

Mexico (W Baja California Sur)

Type locality: ‘‘Cape San Lucas, Lower California’’ (= Baja California, Mexico

Holotype

Lectotype: USNM 21324 (Cochran, 1961: 110). Lectoparatypes: CAS 50187; MCZ 11813; USNM 8568, 12599, 21316, 21317, 21320–21325 (La Paz, Baja California, in the catalog of the United States National Museum

Comment

References
  • Cole, Charles J.;Gans, Carl 1987. Chromosomes of Bipes, Mesobaena, and other Amphisbaenians (Reptilia), with comments on their evolution American Museum Novitates (2869): 1-9
  • Cope, E.D. 1894. On the genera and species of Euchirotidae. American Nat. 28: 436-437.
  • Cope, E.D. 1896. The mesenteries of the Sauria. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1896: 308-314.
  • Kearney, M. 2002. Appendicular Skeleton in Amphisbaenians (Reptilia: Squamata). Copeia 2002 (3):719–738
  • Kearney, M. 2003. Diet in the amphisbaenian Bipes biporus. Journal of Herpetology 37:404-408
  • Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60
  • Love, B. 2009. Die Vergessenen. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (4): 83-84
  • Macey, J.R.; Schulte, J.A., Larson, A. & Papenfuss, T.J. 1998. Tandem duplication via light-strand synthesis may provide a precursor for mitochondrial genomic rearrangement. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15 (1): 71-75
  • Papenfuss, T.J. 1982. The ecology and systematics of the amphisbaenian genus Bipes Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (136): 42 pp.
  • Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston


 
 
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