Popular species names have always been based on human relationships with things
around them, usually reflecting species' external morphology, behavior or even the habitat …

O Brasil é um país megadiverso, mundialmente conhecido por suas exuberantes florestas
tropicais. Devido à impressionante diversidade biológica nessas regiões, áreas mais secas …

Fossorial vertebrates such as amphisbaenians suffer from morphological constraints as a
result of their burrowing strategies. The morphology is conserved in many groups and …

Abstract The Brazilian Caatinga has already lost extensive areas of original vegetation, thus
it becomes imperative to perform fauna inventories within this region to fill geographical …

Here, we describe a new species of Amphisbaena with two precloacal pores from open
Cerrado areas of the municipality of Arenópolis, in the Brazilian state of Goiás. The new …

Morphological patterns may vary spatially in response to adaptations to regional
environmental conditions. In fossorial animals, edaphic gradients potentially predict intra …

We describe a new species of Amphisbaena from the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. The
new taxon is identified mainly by having 216–239 body annuli, 13–17 caudal annuli without …

 Abstract A new species of Amphisbaena is described from the north of Espinhaço Mountain
Range, municipality of Caetité, state of Bahia, Brazil. Amphisbaenaamethystasp. nov. can be …

We reassessed the type-series of Amphisbaena lumbricalis Vanzolini, 1996 and
Amphisbaena carvalhoi Gans, 1965, two small amphisbaenid species from northeastern …

Amphisbaenids are fossorial reptiles with morphological adaptations to subterraneous life.
These reptiles feed mainly on arthropods and may act as hosts of several parasite groups …