Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Amphisbaenidae > Zygaspis > Zygaspis quadrifrons

Zygaspis quadrifrons (KalahariRound-snouted Worm Lizard)

Synonyms: Amphisbaena ambuellensis; Amphisbaena capensis; Amphisbaena quadrifrons; Amphisbaena quadrifrons katangae; Zygaspis quadrifrons capensis

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Fossorial
Litter Size [2]  5
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Etosha National Park II 5699141 Namibia  
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  
Namib-Naukluft National Park II 12585619 Namibia  

External References

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
2Nathan 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