Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Amphisbaenidae > Amphisbaena > Amphisbaena pretrei

Amphisbaena pretrei (Rio Grande Worm Lizard)

Synonyms: Amphisbaena brachyura; Amphisbaena subocularis

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Atlantic dry forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Caatinga Brazil Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Cerrado Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Maranhao Babatu forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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