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Definition of Rhineura Floridana

Rhineura Floridana
Thunderworm Thun"der*worm`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisb[ae]na, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.

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- Rhineura floridana, known commonly as the Florida worm lizard, graveyard snake, or thunderworm, is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Rhineuridae...
- species, Rhineura floridana, as well as many extinct species belonging to both Rhineura and several extinct genera. The living R. floridana is found only...
- All other species lack any trace of forelimb skeletal elements, and Rhineura floridana also lack any pectoral girdle skeletal element. The other species...
- Rhineura is a genus of worm lizard endemic to North America. The genus has only one extant species but more are known from fossil record. They are also...
- Vanzolini, 1951 North American worm lizards North American worm lizard (Rhineura floridana) Trogonophidae Gray, 1865 Palearctic worm lizards Checkerboard worm...
- monitor (Var**** salvator) * LC Worm lizards Florida wormlizard (Rhineura floridana) LC Brahminy blindsnake (Indotyphlops braminus) * Subfamily: Erycinae...
- Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi), and Florida worm lizard (Rhineura floridana). This community is often adjacent to Florida longleaf pine sandhills...
- polyphemus) Chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) Florida worm lizard (Rhineura floridana) Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) Eastern diamondback rattlesnake...
- Rhineura floridana; the Harderian gland is marked H. gl. in diagram B (horizontal section of head) and C (horizontal section through right eye)....
- crayfish, and beetles. Vestigial eye in the extant Rhineura floridana and remnant jugal in the extinct Rhineura hatchery (reclassified as Protorhineura hatcherii)...