{"id":6904,"date":"2020-08-14T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabrielpaladino.com\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:05:16","slug":"amphisbaena-kingii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pelecyphora.ddns.net:60123\/GabrielPaladino.com\/2020\/08\/14\/amphisbaena-kingii\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphisbaena kingii"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2022 King’s worm lizard
\n\u2022 V\u00edbora ciega de cabeza en cu\u00f1a<\/p>\n

Scientific classification <\/b>
\nKingdom:Animalia
\nPhylum:Chordata
\nClass:Reptilia
\nOrder:Squamata
\nFamily:Amphisbaenidae
\nGenus:Amphisbaena
\nSpecies:A. kingii<\/p>\n

Solymar, Canelones, Uruguay<\/p>\n

Anops kingi is the type species of the genus Anops BELL 1833. MOTT & VIEITES 2009 synonymized Anops with Amphisbaena, as it nests within Amphisbaena (confirmed by Longrich et al. 2015). STEJNEGER (1916) states that Anops is pre-occupied by a crustacean and thus suggested a replacement name, Anopsibaena.<\/p>\n

Vanzolini (1999), based mostly on skull morphology, diagnosed the genus Anops with the following combination of characters: laterally compressed snout, with a keel formed by the vertical process of the premaxilla which entirely separates the nasal bones; an angle between maxilla and premaxilla; basypterigoid process and choanarum posterior portion absent; rodlike quadrate; premaxillary teeth 5\u20137, maxillary 3\u20134, mandibular 6\u20137, pleurodont dentition; rostral pronounced forming a vertical blade. No differentiated segments in the body annuli. <\/p>\n

Named after Captain and Admiral Philip Parker King (1791-1856), Australian-born British marine surveyor and collector. <\/p>\n

via Flickr https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2jwjXoe<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 King’s worm lizard \u2022 V\u00edbora ciega de cabeza en cu\u00f1a Scientific classification Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordata Class:Reptilia Order:Squamata Family:Amphisbaenidae Genus:Amphisbaena Species:A. kingii Solymar, Canelones, Uruguay Anops kingi is the type species of the genus Anops BELL 1833. MOTT & VIEITES 2009 synonymized Anops with Amphisbaena, as it nests within Amphisbaena (confirmed by Longrich et al. 2015). 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