Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Blanidae > Blanus > Blanus strauchiBlanus strauchi (Turkish Worm Lizard)Synonyms: Amphisbaena strauchi; Blanus bedraigai; Blanus bedriagae | Adult Weight [1] | 6 grams |  | | Habitat Substrate [2] | Fossorial | | | Litter Size [3] | 2 | | Reproductive Mode [2] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 6 inches (16 cm) |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests |
Greece, Turkey, Macedonia |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests |
Turkey |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests |
Turkey |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests |
Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Syria |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests |
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Zagros Mountains forest steppe |
Iran |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Irano-Anatolian |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan |
No |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226 ♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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