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    Species Accepted

    Bipes biporus (Cope, 1894)

    Five-toed Worm Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Bipes
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Ajolote de Cinco Dedos Spanish
      Dos Manos de Cinco Dedos Spanish
      Five-toed Worm Lizard English
      Fünffingerige Handwühle German
      Lagartija topo cinco dedos Spanish
      Lagartija-topo cinco dedos Spanish
      Lagarto-toupeira-mexicano Portuguese
      Mexican mole lizard English
      ajolot Polish
      Айолот Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      20 results
      Van Denburgh, J. (1895). A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 77-163.
      Liner, Ernest A. (2007). A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60.
      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Love, B. (2009). Die Vergessenen. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (78): 83-84.
      Jones, L. L., & Lovich, R. E. (2009). Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 86: 84].
      Papenfuss, T. J. (1982). The ecology and systematics of the amphisbaenian genus Bipes. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (136): 42 Pp.
      Cole, Charles J.;Gans, Carl. (1987). Chromosomes of Bipes, Mesobaena, and other Amphisbaenians (Reptilia), with comments on their evolution. American Museum Novitates (2869): 1-9.
      Dial, B.E., R.E. Gatten, Jr. & S. Kamel. (1987). Energetics of Concertina Locomotion in Bipes biporus (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia). Copeia 1987 (2): 470-477.
      Gorman, George C.; Wilson, Allan C.; Nakanishi, Mikiye. (1971). A biochemical approach towards the study of reptilian phylogeny: evolution of serum albumin and lactic dehydrogenase. Systematic Zoology 20(2):167-185.
      Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. (2023). The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142.

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