Blanus tingitanus

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Jose Antonio Mateo Miras |author2=Iñigo Martínez-Solano |author3=Ulrich Joger |author4=Juan Pleguezuelos |author5=Tahar Slimani |date=2009 |title=Blanus tingitanus |volume=2009 |page=e.T61471A12472331 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61471A12472331.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Blanus

| species = tingitanus

| authority = Busack, 1988

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Blanus tingitanus is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae.{{NRDB species |genus=Blanus |species=tingitanus |access-date=13 February 2023}}

Geographic range

B. tingitanus is found in northern Morocco including Ceuta (a Spanish autonomous city).

Taxonomy and systematics

B. tingitanus was formerly considered a part of Blanus cinereus, which (as currently defined) is restricted to Portugal and Spain.{{NRDB species |genus=Blanus |species=cinereus |access-date=13 February 2023}}

Habitat

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

Conservation stats

B. tingitanus is threatened by habitat loss.

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Busack |first1=Stephen D. |title=Biochemical and morphological differentiation in Spanish and Moroccan populations of Blanus and the description of a new Species from northern Morocco (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) |journal=Copeia |date=1988 |volume=1988 |issue=1 |pages=101–109 |doi=10.2307/1445928 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/1445928 |jstor=1445928 |url-access=subscription }}

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tingitanus

Category:Reptiles of North Africa

Category:Endemic fauna of Morocco

Category:Reptiles described in 1988

Category:Taxa named by Stephen D. Busack

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot