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Turkish worm lizard

{{Short description|Species of amphisbaenian}}

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| image = BennyTrapp Türkische Netzwühle Blanus strauchi.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Petros Lymberakis, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Ahmad Mohammed Mousa Disi, Souad Hraoui-Bloquet, Riyad Sadek, Yehudah Werner, Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm |date=2009 |title=Blanus strauchi |volume=2009 |page=e.T157272A5067037 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T157272A5067037.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Blanus

| species = strauchi

| authority = (Bedriaga, 1884)

| synonyms = *Amphisbaena strauchi
{{small|Bedriaga, 1884}}

  • Blanus strauchi
    {{small|— Engelmann et al., 1993}}

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The Turkish worm lizard (Blanus strauchi) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is native to Southeast Europe and the Middle East. There are two recognized subspecies.

Etymology

The specific name, strauchi, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Alexander Strauch.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Blanus strauchi, p. 256).

Geographic range

B. strauchi is found in Greece, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.{{NRDB species|genus=Blanus|species=strauchi|accessdate=24 February 2019}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of B. strauchi is shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to {{convert|1,400|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Reproduction

B. strauchi is oviparous.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Blanus.

References

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Further reading

  • Bedriaga J (1884). "Amphisbaena cinerea Vand. und A. Strauchi v. Bedr., Erster Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Doppelschleichen ". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 50 (1): 23–41. (Amphisbaena strauchi, new species, pp. 35–41, Figures 4–6). (in German).
  • Bedriaga J (1884). "Nachträgliche Bemerkung über Amphisbaena Strauchi v. Bedr." Zoologischer Anzeiger 7: 346. (in German).
  • Boulenger GA (1884). "Descriptions of new Species of Reptiles in the British Museum.—Part II." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 13: 396–398. (Blanus bedriagae, new species, p. 396).
  • Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-89504-14-7}}.

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Category:Blanus

Category:Taxa named by Jacques von Bedriaga

Category:Reptiles described in 1884

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