Rhineura floridana
(Baird, 1859 “1858”)
rai-NUR-uh — floor-eh-DAN-uh
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Ground Worm (Rhineura floridana: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Thunder Worm (Rhineura floridana: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Florida Worm Lizard (Rhineura floridana: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1859
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Baird, Spencer F. Description of new genera and species of North American lizards in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. [1858] Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:253-256
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1967
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Gans, Carl Rhineura. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (42):1-2
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1967
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Gans, Carl Rhineura floridana. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (43):1-2
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1968
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Zug, George R. Geographic variation in Rhineura floridana (Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 12(4):185-211
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2004
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Macey, J. Robert, Theodore J. Papenfuss, Jennifer V. Kuehl, H. Mathew Fourcade and Jeffrey L. Boore. Phylogenetic relationships among amphisbaenian reptiles based on complete mitochondrial genomic sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33(1):22-31
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2005
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Mulvaney, Abigail, Todd A. Castoe, Kyle G. Ashton, Kenneth L. Krysko, and Christopher L. Parkinson. Evidence of population genetic structure within the Florida Worm Lizard, Rhineura floridana (Amphisbaenia: Rhineuridae). Journal of Herpetology 39(1):118-124
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