| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Ridley's Worm Lizard
Portuguese: Cobra-de-Duas-Cabeças, Cobra-Cega |
| Synonym | Amphisbaena ridleyi BOULENGER 1890
Amphisbaena ridleyi — GANS 1963
Amphisbaena ridleyi — ESTES & WILLIAMS 1984
Amphisbaena ridleyi — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Amphisbaena ridleyi — GANS 2005: 19
Amphisbaena ridleyi — GRABOSKI et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, a small volcanic archipelago in the equatorial South Atlantic (3°51’S and 32°25’W), 350 km off the northeastern Brazilian
coast).
Type locality: ‘‘Porto Bello’’ (= Brazil, according to G. Boulenger, 1890a) and ‘‘Fernando Noronha,’’ Brazil; restricted to ‘‘Fernando da Noronha, Brazil’’ (Gans, 1963: 103).
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: BMNH 88.1.19.7. Lectoparatypes: BMNH 88.1.19.8–88.1.19.15; KM R-4443; MCZ 10789; MNHN 90–419 (= MHNP); SMF 11825; BMNH V.2.2a:RR-1960.1.4.39 (‘‘Porto Bello, W. Indies’’ 5 ‘‘Brazil’’), ZMUC |
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| Comment | Similar species: A. caeca; Boulenger himself as well as Gray considered the specimen in the British Museum to be A. caeca until Boulenger described it as new species, A. ridleyi. |
| Etymology | named afterthe collector of the types, Mr. Ridley. |
| References |
- Almeida JPFA De, De Freitas MA, Da Silva MB, Valverde MCC, Rodrigues MT, Pires AM, Mott T. 2018. A new four-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4514 (4): 553-562. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.8. - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1890. Reptilia. In Ridley, H. N., Notes on the zoology of Fernando Noronha. Jour. Linnean Soc. London 20: 481-482
- Brygoo, E. R. 1990. Les types d'Amphisbaenidés, Pygopodidés, Xantusiidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - Catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 12 (ser. 4) A (3-4), suppl.: 3-18
- Estes, Richard and Ernest E. Williams 1984. Ontogenetic Variation in the Molariform Teeth of Lizards. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4 (1): 96-107 - get paper here
- Falcione, Camila and Alejandra Hernando 2010. A new karyotypic formula for the genus Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae). Phyllomedusa 9 (1): 75-80 - get paper here
- Finley Jr., R.B. 1945. Notes on Lizards from Fernando Noronha. Copeia 1945 (3): 162-164 - get paper here
- Gans, C. 1963. Notes on amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia). 10. Redescription of Amphisbaena ridleyi Boulenger Copeia 1963 (1): 102-107. - get paper here
- Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here
- Gans, Carl 1963. Redescription of Amphisbaena ridleyi Boulenger. Copeia 1963 (1): 102-107 - get paper here
- Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
- Graboski, R., Grazziotin, F.G., Mott, T., Trefaut Rodrigues, M., 2022. The phylogenetic position of Ridley's worm lizard reveals the complex biogeographic history of New World insular amphisbaenids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2022), - get paper here
- Mausfeld, Patrick; Andreas SCHMITZ; Wolfgang BÖHME; Bernhard MISOF; Davor VRCIBRADIC; Carlos Frederico Duarte ROCHA 2002. Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zool. Anz. 241: 281–293 - get paper here
- Vanzolini, P.E. 2002. AN AID TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF AMPHISBAENA (SQUAMATA, AMPHISBAENIDAE). Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 42(15):351-362 - get paper here
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