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Aprasia repens (Hasty Legless Lizard; Sedgelands Worm-lizard)

Synonyms: Ophioseps repens

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  2 grams
Female Weight [1]  6 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Predators

Neelaps calonotus (Black-striped Burrowing Snake, Western Black-striped Snake)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Reproduction and diet in four species of burrowing snakes (Simoselaps spp.) from southwestern Western Australia, N. R. Strahan, R. A. How and J. Dell, Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 57-63 (1998).
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