Bipes tridactylus (Dugès)

GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289), pp. 1-130 : 41-42

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Bipes tridactylus (Dugès)
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Bipes tridactylus (Dugès)

Hemichirotes tridactylus Dugès in Cope, 1894: 437. Dugès, 1894: 411. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero’’, Mexico. Holotype: Alfredo Dugès Museum, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico ( Taylor, 1933: 97; Smith and Necker, 1943: 180).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Smith and Taylor (1950b: 38). See also Cendrero (1972), Cope (1894), Flores­Villela and Gerez (1988, dis­

tribution), Papenfuss (1982, ecology and systematics), and Walls (1979).

RANGE: Known from the type only.

FAMILY RHINEURIDAE (Rhineura)

Genus Rhineura Cope

Rhineura Cope, 1861a: 75 . Type species: L. (ep­

idosternum) floridanum Baird , by monotypy.

See discussion by H. Smith (1946: 431), Vanzolini (1951b: 116), and Gans (1967c). For fossil species see Auffenberg (1963), Brattstrom (1958), Douglass (1908), Galbreath (1953), Gilmore (1938a), Holman (1958, 1959, 1962, 1979), MacDonald (1963, 1970), Sullivan (1985, 1991), Sullivan and Holman (1996), Walker (1932), and Yatkola (1976).

Rhineura floridana (Baird) Lepidosternon floridanum S.F. Baird, 1858: 255 .

TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Micanopy, Florida’’. Holo­

type: USNM 3203.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: H. Smith (1946: 431), Neill (1951: 177), Gans (1967d). See also Allen and Neill (1954, general), Ashton and Sawyer Ashton (1985, biology), Bartlett (1989), Bartlett and Bartlett (1999, identification), Behler and King (1979, identification), Bellairs (1950, anatomy), Bellairs and Boyd (1947, anatomy), Belson and Small (1998, behavior), Bogert (1964, biology), Bogert and Cowles (1947, ecology), Böhme (1970), Burt (1937, distribution), Carr (1949, biology), Carr and Goin (1955, identification), Cochran (1961, list), Cope (1892a, 1892b, anatomy), Dyrkacz (1973, anatomy), Eigenmann (1901, 1902, anatomy), Fürbringer (1900, anatomy), Gans (1960, biomechanics; 1967b, 1967f, distribution), Hingtgen (1991, distribution), Jensen and Payne (1996, distribution), Langebartel (1968, anatomy), Lönnberg (1902, anatomy), Makino (1951, chromosomes), Matthey (1932b, 1932c, 1933, 1951b, chromosomes), Meylan (1982, 1984, distribution), Miller (1966a, anatomy), Neill (1951, anatomy), Pratt (1987), Sawaya and de Aguilar (1982, physiology), Schmidt (1953, list), Simonetta (1960, anatomy), Smith et al. (1953, anatomy), Telford (1955), Turner (1985), Van Hyning (1933, distribution), Witz et al. (1991, habitat), Wood (1995, distribution), Zangerl (1944, 1945, anatomy), and Zug (1968a, 1968b, 1970, distribution, variation).

FAMILY TROGONOPHIDAE (Including the genera Agamodon , Diplometopon , Pachycalamus and Trogonophis )

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Bipedidae

Genus

Bipes

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Bipes tridactylus (Dugès)

GANS, CARL 2005
2005
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Rhineura

Cope 1861: 75
1861
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