Amphisbaena carlgansi THOMAS & HEDGES, 1998

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cuban Pink Wormlizard, Cuban Pink Amphisbaena
Synonym	Amphisbaena carlgansi THOMAS & HEDGES 1998 Amphisbaena carlgansi — GANS 2005: 12
Distribution	Cuba Type locality: Boca del Toro, Granma Province, Cuba.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHNCU 4421. Paratypes: MNHNCU 4422, USNM 512213, 512214, UMMZ 90720.
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: Three Cuban species, Amphisbaena cubana, A. barbouri, and A. carlgansi, share a major fusion of head scales (ocular + second supralabial) not found in other Antillean species of the genus (Gans and Alexander, 1962). Therefore it is appropriate to compare A. carlgansi with A. cubana and A. barbouri. Of the three species, A. carlgansi is most similar to A. barbouri and thus the diagnostic differences distinguishing A. barbouri from A. cubana also distinguish A. carlgansi from A. cubana. Most notably, A. barbouri and A. carlgansi are smaller and more slender species with higher numbers of body and caudal annuli and lower interfrontal/interprefrontal and intemasal/ interprefrontal ratios (Table 1). The most relevant comparison of A. carlgansi is with its presumed closest relative A. barbouri. The two species can be separated by a combination of the following characters: tail length/ SVL (0.080-0.086 in carlgansi, 0.060-0.079 in barbouri) (Fig. 3), coloration (pale pinkish-tan in carlgansi, medium brown in barbouri), number of body annuli (212-228 [x̅ = 219] in carlgansi, 226-240 [x̅ = 233] in barbouri), and total midbody segments (31-34 [mode = 32] in carlgansi, 28-32 [mode = 30, 31] in barbouri) (Table 1). (Thomas & Hedges 1998).
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
References	Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here Thomas, R. and S. B. Hedges. 1998. A new amphisbaenian from Cuba. Journal of Herpetology 32 (1): 92-96. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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