Leposternon wuchereri (PETERS, 1879)

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Wucherer's Worm Lizard Portuguese: Cobra-de-Duas-Cabeças, Cobra-Cega
Synonym	Lepidosternon Wuchereri PETERS 1879: 276 Leposternon wuchereri (PETERS) 1879 Lepidosternum sinuosum PERACCA 1895 Leposternon wuchereri — BAUER et al. 1995: 68 Leposternon wuchereri — GANS 2005: 33 Amphisbaena wuchereri — MOTT & VIEITES 2009 Amphisbaena wuchereri — ZAHER et al. 2011 Leposternon wuchereri — RIBEIRO et al. 2018
Distribution	Brazil (Bahia, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro) Type locality: “Bahia”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMB 9389 Holotype: MSNTO R242 [Lepidosternum sinuosum PERACCA 1895]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Amaral (1937b) included L. sinuosum in the synonymy of this species, whereas GANS (1967) didn’t.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Otto Edward Henry Wucherer (1820-1874), a Portuguese-born German physician and herpetologist
References	Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Filogonio, Renato; Conrado A. B. Galdino, Daniel P. R. Cabral, Alexandre F. Righi, Marcelo F. Lopes, and Luciana B. Nascimento 2009. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN LEPOSTERNON MICROCEPHALUM AND L. WUCHERERI (SQUAMATA: AMPHISBAENIDAE) FROM MINAS GERAIS, SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL. Herpetologica 65 (4): 353-362 - get paper here Gans, C. 1971. Studies on Amphisbaenians. (4). A review of the amphisbaenid genus Leposternon. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 144 (6): 379-464 - 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 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 Mott, Tamí; David R. Vieites 2009. Molecular phylogenetics reveals extreme morphological homoplasy in Brazilian worm lizards challenging current taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51 (2): 190-200 - get paper here Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha 2020. Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: e20206024 - get paper here Peracca, M.G. 1895. Nuová specie di Lepidosternum del Museo Zoologico di Torino. Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino 10 (200): 1-2 Peters,W.C.H. 1879. Über die Amphisbaenen und eine zu denselben gehörige neue Art (Lepidosternon Wuchereri). Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1879: 273-277 - get paper here Ribeiro, Síria; Adriano Lima Silveira and Alfredo P. Santos-jr 2018. A New Species of Leposternon (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from Brazilian Cerrado with a Key to Pored Species. Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 50-58 - get paper here RIBEIRO, SIRIA; ALFREDO P. SANTOS-JR, HUSSAM ZAHER 2015. A new species of Leposternon Wagler, 1824 (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) from northeastern Argentina. Zootaxa 4034 (2): 309–324 - get paper here ROCHA, CARLOS FREDERICO D.; HELENA G.BERGALLO, JOSÉ P. POMBAL JR., LENA GEISE, MONIQUE VAN SLUYS, RONALDO FERNANDES, ULISSES CARAMASCHI 2004. FAUNA DE ANFÍBIOS, RÉPTEIS E MAMÍFEROS DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO, SUDESTE DO BRASIL. Publ. Avul. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro (104): 3-23 - get paper here
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