| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Gonave Wormlizard, Gonave Worm Lizard |
| Synonym | Amphisbaena innocens gonavensis GANS & ALEXANDER 1962: 111
Amphisbaena gonavensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 559
Amphisbaena gonavensis — THOMAS & HEDGES 2006 |
| Distribution | Haiti (Île de la Gonâve, Île de la Petite Gonâve)
Type locality: Pointe à Raquettes, Île de la Gonâve, Haiti.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: YPM 3384 |
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| Comment | Illustrations: Gans and Alexander, 1962; Thomas, 1965c.
Synonymy: Thomas & Hedges (2006), by implication, considered A. g. leberi to be a synomym of A. hyporissor.
Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
| 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 - get paper here
- Cusumano, M. & R. Powell 1991. A note on the diet of Amphisbaena gonavensis in the Dominican Republic Amphibia-Reptilia, 12(3): 350-352. - 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
- Gans, Carl & Alexander, A. Allen 1962. Studies on amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia). 2. On the amphisbaenids of the Antilles. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 128 (3): 65-158 - get paper here
- Powell, R. 1992. Amphisbaena gonavensis Gans and Alexander. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 539: 1-3 - get paper here
- Powell, Robert; José A. Ottenwalder and Sixto J. Incháustegui 1999. The Hispaniolan Herpetofauna: Diversity, Endemism, and Historical Perpectives, with Comments on Navassa Island. In Crother, Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles, Academic Press, pp. 93-168 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Thomas, R. 1965. Two new subspecies of Amphisbaena (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia) from the Barahona Peninsula of Hispaniola. Breviora (215): 1-14 - get paper here
- Thomas, R. & Hedges, S.B. 2006. Two New Species of Amphisbaena (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti. Carib. J. Sci. 42 (2): 208-219 - get paper here
- Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
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