Chirindia
Sign in to saveChirindia is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Commonly known as pink round-headed worm lizards, species in the genus Chirindia are native to East Africa and southern Africa, from Tanzania to South Africa. They are unpigmented worm lizards with rounded heads, and extensive fusion of the head shields.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Chirindia is referenced by 11 other articles, and connects out to South Africa, Animalia and Tanzania.
It sits within the topics Chirindia, Lizard genera and Lizards of Africa.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyAmphisbaenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Amphisbaenidae
- Collections
- TCWC, FMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Mozambique
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Amphisbaenidae
- Image
- Soutpansberg Wormlizard (Chirindia langi subsp. occidentalis).JPG
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- taxon name
- Chirindia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Behaviour and predators
- Species and subspecies
- References
Chirindia is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Commonly known as pink round-headed worm lizards, species in the genus Chirindia are native to East Africa and southern Africa, from Tanzania to South Africa. They are unpigmented worm lizards with rounded heads, and extensive fusion of the head shields.
==Description== Chirindia are small and slender. For example, the holotype of C. swynnertoni is long, with the tail , and the body is in diameter. They are uniformly, unpigmented flesh-coloured, tinged with purplish, and have minute teeth. They usually lack an ocular shield, and each eye is situated under the posterior part of a large fused shield, that combines the nasal, second and sometimes first upper labial, prefrontal and sometimes the ocular shield into one, so as to cover all of one side of the snout.
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