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Rhineuridae

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhineuridae is a family of amphisbaenians (commonly called worm lizards) that includes one living genus and species, Rhineura floridana, as well as many extinct species belonging to both Rhineura and several extinct genera. The living R. floridana is found only in Florida no further north than the panhandle, but extinct species ranged across North America, some occurring as far west as Oregon. The family has a fossil record stretching back 60 million years to the Paleocene and was most diverse in the continental interior during the Eocene and Oligocene.
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Genus

Archaerhineura (1)
Dyticonastis (1)
Jepsibaena (1)
Oligorhineura (1)
Ototriton (1)
Plesiorhineura (1)
Rhineura (Worm lizard) (4)
Solastella (1)
Spathorhynchus (2)

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External References

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