Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Amphisbaenidae > Monopeltis > Monopeltis guentheri

Monopeltis guentheri (Western Congo Worm Lizard)

Synonyms: Monopeltis boulengeri

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Fossorial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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
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