Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Typhlopidae > Amerotyphlops > Amerotyphlops tasymicrisAmerotyphlops tasymicris (Grenada Worm Snake)Synonyms: Typhlops tasymicris The Grenada worm snake or Grenada Bank blindsnake (Typhlops tasymicris) is a species of blind snake that is endemic to Grenada, an island in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It reaches a total length of 180 mm. It has light lines on its dorsal surface, and its ventral surface is unpigmented. |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves |
Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Caribbean shrublands |
France, United Kingdom, Dominica, St. Lucia, Netherlands |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Lesser Antillean dry forests |
Grenada, St. Lucia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Windward Islands moist forests |
Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
Yes |
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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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