Vehicles running over vertebrates has been an increasing challenge to the local conservation of some herpetofauna. The Amphisbaenidae are fossorial reptiles which are poorly known ecologically. Biological and natural history ...

Vehicles running over vertebrates has been an increasing challenge to the local conservation of some herpetofauna. The Amphisbaenidae are fossorial reptiles which are poorly known ecologically. Biological and natural history ...

Respiratory properties of whole blood and hemoglobin solutions have been studied in the burrowing reptile, Amphisbaena alba. Whole blood is distinguished from that of other squamate reptiles by an extraordinary high O2 ...

Amphisbaena alba when in a defensive position adopts a horseshoe posture, raises its head and tail and opens its mouth. the tail is rigid; the dorsal surface often has non-pigmented areas which resemble scars. Leposternon ...

1. 1. Myoglobin from the subterranean reptile Amphisbaena alba was isolated for measurement of concentrations and physico-chemical properties. 2. 2. The concentrations (averaging 12.1 mg.g-1 wet weight in the temporal ...

The present study reports the occurrence of helminths in the introduced species Tupinambis merianae (tegu lizard), and in two endemic species Trachylepis atlantica (small lizard) and Amphisbaena ridleyi (two-head-snake ...