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Moroccan worm lizard

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Moroccan Worm Lizard
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Blanidae
Genus: Blanus
Species:
B. mettetali
Binomial name
Blanus mettetali
Bons, 1963
Synonyms
  • Blanus cinereus mettetali
    Bons, 1963
  • Blanus mettetali
    Busack, 1988[2]

The Moroccan worm lizard (Blanus mettetali) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is endemic to Morocco.[3]

Etymology

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The specific name, mettetali, is in honor of a Mr. Mettetal who was head of the Laboratory of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Morocco.[4]

Habitat

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The natural habitats of B. mettetali are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, arable land, and pastureland.

Conservation status

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B. mettetali is threatened by habitat loss.

References

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  1. ^ Miras, J.A.M.; Joger, U.; Pleguezuelos, J.; Slimani, T. (2006). "Blanus mettetali". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61470A12472055. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61470A12472055.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Blanus mettetali ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Busack, Stephen D. (1988). "Biochemical and Morphological Differentiation in Spanish and Moroccan Populations of Blanus and the Description of a New Species from Northern Morocco (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae)". Copeia. 1988 (1): 101–109. doi:10.2307/1445928. JSTOR 1445928.
  4. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Blanus mettetali, p. 177).

Further reading

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  • Bons, Jacques (1963). "Notes sur Blanus cinereus (Vandelli), description d'une sous-espèce Marocaine: Blanus cinereus mettetali ssp. nov." Bulletin de la Société des Sciences naturelles et physiques du Maroc (1-2): 95–107. (in French).

Phylogeographical patterns

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