WORM LIZARD

partially or entirely limbless burrowing lizard of the family Amphisbaenidae. All worm lizards lack hind limbs and most species lack forelimbs as well. Except for their size, they are very similar in appearance to earthworms, with cylindrical bodies ringed by shallow grooves. Their eyes and ears are covered by skin. Most are about a foot (30 cm) long. Members of many species remain underground most of their lives, feeding on earthworms, spiders, and insects. Worm lizards are found in tropical and warm temperate areas of Africa, SW Asia, S Europe, and the Americas. The only species found in the United States is the Florida worm lizard, Rhineura floridana, of N and central Florida, which attains a length of 11 in. (28 cm). Worm lizards are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Amphisbaenidae.

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books on: Worm Lizard  - 104 results

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By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature
Book by Alberto Manguel; Plenum Trade, 1998
Subjects: Natural History, Nature
...singing loses its strength and beauty. Indeed, this beauty is not primitive. Descendants of the Saurians by the winged and lizard-tailed fossil, Archaeopteryx, the birds, having gained dry land after the miry marshes of the secondary epoch, and then...
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Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States
Book by Bruce A. Stein, Lynn S. Kutner, Jonathan S. Adams; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Biological Diversity Conservation--United States
...Mexico. The Florida worm lizard is not a lizard at all but, instead...the much more diverse lizards and snakes. Suzanne...burrowing, snakelike lizards is found only in California...groups. The Florida worm lizard Rhineura floridana...
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Adolphus, a Tale
Book by William Noy Wilkins, Lise Winer; University Press of the West Indies, 2001
Subjects: Racially Mixed People--Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction, Slavery--Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction, Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction
...venomous, snake-like, legless lizards, whose tail end resembles...Amphisbaena fuliginosa, the spotted worm snake, is small, mottled...white. A. alba, the red worm lizard, is larger and ranges from...They appear to be attracted by worms in the loose soil brought up...A. alba ); and spotted worm snake ( A. fuliginosa...
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The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna
Book by Paulo S. Oliveira, Robert J. Marquis; Columbia University Press, 2002
Subjects: Cerrado Ecology--Brazil
...reproductive seasonality in tropical lizards. J. Herpetol. 31:490 499. Colli...S. Zamboni. 1999. Ecology of the worm-lizard Amphisbaena alba in the Cerrado of central...distribution of the rare gymnophthalmid lizard, Bachia bresslaui. Herpetologica 54...
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Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole
Book by E. L. Joseph, Lise Winer; UWI Press, 2001
Subjects: Arundell, Warner, Historical Fiction
...head from its tail: Either of two non-venomous, snake-like, legless lizards, Amphisbaena fuliginosa , the spotted worm snake, and A. alba , the red worm lizard, whose bluntly rounded tail end resembles the head end. p. 347 "Unnatural...
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journal articles on: Worm Lizard  - 30 results

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Persistence and Stability of the Component Helminth Community of the Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus Graciosus (Phrynosomatidae) from Los Angeles County, California, 1972-1973, 1986-1996
Journal article by Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, Hay Cheam; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 138, 1997
Subjects: Animal populations, Parasites, Reptiles & amphibians, Worms
...Baja California; it is an oviparous lizard that deposits one or two clutches of...these abundant, easily collected lizards are active March-October and spend...there are many reports of helminths in lizards (Schmidt, 1986; Baker, 1987...1997) of helminth communities within lizard populations. The purpose of this study...Los Angeles County, California. Lizards were preserved in 10% formalin and...for storage. The body cavity of each lizard was opened by a longitudinal incision...
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Seasonal Variation in the Helminth Community of the Brown Anole, Anolis Sagrei (Sauria: Polychrotidae), from Oahu, Hawaii
Journal article by Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 148, 2002
Subjects: Animal populations, Animal reproduction, Parasites, Seasons, Worms
...southeastern United States (see Baker, 1987). Known helminths of Anolis sagrei, as well as helminths infecting other Hawaiian lizards, were summarized by Goldberg and Bursey (2000a, b). Goldberg et aL (2002) studied the reproductive cycle of Anolis...were deposited in the herpetology collection of the University of Michigan (UMMZ), Ann Arbor. The body cavity of each lizard was opened by a longitudinal incision from throat to vent and the gastrointestinal tract was removed by cutting across the...
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"Snatch," "Hole," or "Honey-Pot"? Semantic Categories and the Problem of Nonspecificity in Female Genital Slang
Journal article by Virginia Braun, Celia Kitzinger; The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 38, 2001
...hairy, moustache bald-headed monkey, one-eyed woom weasel Animal Beaver, cat, monkey, Bird, lizard, snake, pussy, rat monkey, worm Money Penny, thruppeny bit, No terms tuppence, two pence, fur purse Personification Bessy, Fanny...
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"I Smile with My Mind": Reconceptualizing Artistic Practice in Early Childhood
Journal article by Dana Frantz Bentley; Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Vol. 25, 2011
Subjects: Children's art--Educational aspects, Children's art--Psychological aspects, Creative ability--Educational aspects, Creativity--Educational aspects, Early childhood education--Models, Early childhood education--Psychological aspects
...Not wanting to be the victims of worm chasing and biting, Patrick and I...the hallway. We avoided all of the worms except one baby, who bit me, "but...understand?" "Yes, of course! Youre the lizard eating those ice pops. Now which one...happily discussing the pros and cons of lizards eating pineapple ice pops.<br...important to first note Alexas passion for lizards. It is an all-consuming love that translates into a vast array of lizard dolls and toys, lizard clothing...
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The History of Faunal Terms in Austronesian Languages
Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Research, Historical linguistics--Research, Language and languages--Word frequency, Linguistic paleontology--Research
...very poisonous and aggressive). Lizards. The most prominent lizard in the AN-speaking world is the monitor...suggested by Aklanon haeo(h) large lizard which eats chickens, Cebuano halo? monitor lizard, Balinese haluh iguana. Although many types of lizards are terminologically distinguished in...
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magazine articles on: Worm Lizard  - 6 results

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Saved by the Sea
Magazine article by David Helvarg; E, Vol. 20, January 2009
Subjects: Marine resources conservation--Social aspects, Wildlife conservation--Social aspects
...according to the late Ram Myers and Boris Worm of Dalhousie University. This is only...below the surface colonized by giant tube worms, clams, white crabs and other animals...freestanding stalks of giant kelp, senorita and lizard fish, gobies, sand dabs, orange-throat blennys peeking out from abandoned worm tubes, and a big bat ray just hanging...
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Holes
Magazine article by Louis Sachar; American Theatre, Vol. 19, April 2002
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Children's books--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatists--Interviews, Holes (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sachar, Louis--Interviews
...He stops suddenly when he sees the lizards. MR. SIR: Now what? WARDEN: We wait...Never used to be yellow-sported lizards in the town of Green Lake. They didnt...in the morning. I need some of your lizard juice. SAM: Sure thing. He takes a...rattlesnake. But those yellow-spotted lizards... He shivers. SAM: Drink half of...
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Fascination of Nature
Magazine article by Roderick Whitfield; Natural History, Vol. 109, July 2000
Subjects: Art, Insects, Symbolism, Xie Chufang
...Mongols. Thus, the scrolls images of a lizard on the prowl, a snail steadily climbing...largest of its leaves, already fading and worm-eaten at the tip, a toad lies in wait...astonishing variety of other creatures-a lizard, a snail, a tree frog, a moth, a bush...
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Crawling out of the Pipe: The Hazardous Waste That Makes More of Itself
Magazine article by Chris Bright; World Watch, Vol. 12, January 1999
Subjects: Biological invasions--Environmental aspects, Commerce--Environmental aspects, International trade--Environmental aspects
...annually. A Mediterranean fan worm now forms a kind of living carpet...extinction in the wild, and several lizard and bat species as well. Many...introduced about 20 species of exotic lizards, some of which prey on native lizards. Florida may eventually become...
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Spinning for Their Supper
Magazine article by Gene S. Helfman; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995
Subjects: Animal behavior, Biology, Fish
...in pursuit of invertebrates, such as worms and insect larvae. Larger animals glided...tactic of both the Australian frilled lizard and the house cat. Overcoming gape limitation...requires not only many small insects or worms but also time--time lost from territorial...conger, snipe, tiretrack, snake, worm, rope, rice, glass, or wolf eels...
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newspaper articles on: Worm Lizard  - 55 results

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St Patrick Couldn't Kill Our Native Lizard
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 17, 2010
...basking in the sun. These adult lizards grow to about 18cm in length...markings on their back. Male lizards have brightly-coloured undersides...have more whitish underparts. Lizards mate this month and next and when this happens, the male lizard grasps the female in his jaw...land in Ireland is the slow worm. But this is confined to the...
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Slow Down. Slow Worms on the Move
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 18, 2009
...verges... to rescue slow worms. Local traders are equally...removed. The resident slow worms and sand lizards are protected under UK and...for the sake of a few slow worms? I went as fast as a slow worm this morning and was an hour...forum wrote: If I dressed in a lizard costume, would I get a police...
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I Braved Swamps, Bandits, Crocs and Flesh Eating Worms to Find This Frog. and Called It Christine; MARTIN NAMES JUNGLE BEAST AFTER HIS GIRL
Newspaper article by Stephen White; The Mirror (London, England), November 1, 1997
...Swamps, Bandits, Crocs and Flesh Eating Worms to Find This Frog. and Called It Christine...had his leg infected by flesh-eating worms. But when he found the little red-legged...once I had to eat the tail of a monitor lizard. "I was very weak at times and kept collapsing...
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Durable SnapBack Plastic Lures Should Be Widely Available Soon
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2002
...way anglers look at plastic worms, soft jerkbaits, lizards and tubes. Outdoor Innovations...you could use a new SnapBack worm or lizard all day and not need to change...problem of easily torn plastic worms and such. And while the new...the actual plastic lizard or worm must ride high above an underwater...
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Gene Mueller's Weekend Fishing Report
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 4, 2006
...hammer a plastic worm or lizard. Sunfish and catfish...and boardwalk on wax worms and small pieces of nightcrawlers...switch to a plastic worms. AREA 2: CENTRAL...catfish are hooked on worm baits in Snow Hill...creek points. Plastic lizards, craws, worms and tubes will do the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Worm Lizard  - 2 results

 
 
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Worm Lizard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WORM LIZARD partially or entirely limbless burrowing lizard of the family Amphisbaenidae. All worm lizards lack hind limbs and...and insects. Worm lizards are found in tropical...is the Florida worm lizard, Rhineura floridana...
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Lizard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and there are over 3,000 lizard species distributed throughout...see monitor ) of SE Asia. Lizards typically have four legs with...although a few, such as the worm lizard and the so-called glass snake...internal vestiges of legs. Lizards are also distinguished from...


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