Baker's worm lizard

Baker's worm lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Amphisbaenia
Family:	Amphisbaenidae
Genus:	Amphisbaena
Species:	A. bakeri
Binomial name
Amphisbaena bakeri Stejneger, 1904

Baker's worm lizard (Amphisbaena bakeri) is a species of worm lizard in the family Amphisbaenidae . ^[2]

Geographic range

A. bakeri is endemic to Puerto Rico. ^[3]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. bakeri is forest at altitudes of 0–600 m (0–1,969 ft). ^[1]

Reproduction

A. bakeri is oviparous. ^[4]

Etymology

The specific name, bakeri, is in honor of Arthur B. Baker, a zoologist with the United States Fish Commission in Puerto Rico, who collected the type specimen. ^[5]

See also

• Puerto Rico portal
• Biology portal
• Amphibians and Reptiles portal

• List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico
• Fauna of Puerto Rico
• List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

References

1. Joglar R, Thomas R (2016). "Amphisbaena bakeri (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T74854398A115480034. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T74854398A75171276.en. Downloaded on 11 March 2019.
2. "Amphisbaena ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 20, 2010.
3. "Metazoa13".
4. Species Amphisbaena bakeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 15).

Further reading

• Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN   978-0813010496. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 555).
• Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Amphisbaena bakeri, p. 166).
• Stejneger L (1904). "The Herpetology of Porto [sic] Rico." pp. 549–724. In: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office. 739 pp. ("Amphisbæna bakeri, new species", pp. 681–683).