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Vinony's link graph records 19 inbound references to Iberian worm lizard, and connects out to predation, thermoregulation and Blanus.
It is catalogued under topics including Blanus, Endemic reptiles of the Iberian Peninsula and IUCN Red List least concern species.
Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernSouthwest Iberian Worm Lizard
species
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Blanus cinereus
- Commons category
- Blanus cinereus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- esculibiertu ciegu
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
An Iberian worm lizard B. cinereus with a human finger for scale The Iberian worm lizard, Mediterranean worm lizard, or European worm lizard (Blanus cinereus) is a species of reptile in the family Blanidae (worm lizards) of the clade Amphisbaenia. The Iberian worm lizard is locally known as cobra-cega (Portuguese), culebrilla ciega (Spanish), and colobreta cega (Catalan), all meaning "blind snake". Recent studies into the mitochondrial and nuclear genomic data of 47 isolated B. cinereus populations show rather large sequence divergence between two apparent clades, leading some researchers to call for a division of the Iberian worm lizard into two species. While little is known of B. cinereus in comparison with some other reptile species, new insight is growing about this primitive, ancestral reptile.
Geographic range
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iberian worm lizard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.