Leposternon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Amphisbaenia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Superfamilia: Lacertoidea Cladus: Amphisbaenia

Familia: Amphisbaenidae
Genus: Leposternon
Species (11): L. bagual – L. cerradensis – L. infraorbitale – L. kisteumacheri – L. maximus – L. microcephalum – L. mineiro – L. octostegum – L. polystegum – L. scutigerum – L. wuchereri

Name

Leposternon Wagler, 1824: 70

Type species: Leposternon microcephalus Wagler, 1824, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Cephalopeltis Müller, 1832: 257
- Type species: Cephalopeltis cuvieri Müller, 1832, by monotypy.
Sphenocephalus Gray, 1865: 452 [as subgenus of Lepidosternon [sic]; preoccupied by †Sphenocephalus Agassiz, 1838, Sphenocephalus Wiegmann in Fitzinger, 1843, and Sphenocephalus Blyth, 1853]
- Type species: Lepidosternon grayii Gray, 1865, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Wagler, J. 1824. Serpentum brasiliensium species novae ou Histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de serpens, recueillies et observées pendant le voyage dans l’intérieur du Brésil dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière, publiée par Jean de Spix,...décrite d’après les notes du voyageur par Jean Wagler. Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni: Munich. vii + 75 pp. BHL Reference page.
Müller, J. 1832. Beitrage zur Anatomie und Naturgeschichte der Amphibien. Zeitschrift fur Physiologie 14(2): 190–275. BHL
Gray, J.E. 1865. A revision of the genera and species of amphisbaenians with the descriptions of some new species now in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 442–455. BHL

Additional references

Gans, C. 1971. Studies on Amphisbaenians. (4). A review of the amphisbaenid genus Leposternon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 144: 379–464. hdl: 2246/1087
Porto, M., Soares, M.A. & Caramaschi, U. 2000. A new species of Leposternon Wagler, 1824 from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a key to the species of the genus (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae). Boletim do Museu Nacional. Nova Série, Zoologia 412: 1–10. Reference page.
Ribeiro, S., Vaz-Silva, W. & Santos Jr., A.P. 2008. New pored Leposternon (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) from Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 1930: 18–38. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Mott, T. & Vieites, D.R. 2009. Molecular phylogenetics reveals extreme morphological homoplasy in Brazilian worm lizards challenging current taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(2): 190–200. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.014 Reference page.
Ribeiro, S., Nogueira, C., Cintra, C.E.D., Silva Jr., N.J. & Zaher, H. 2011. Description of a new pored Leposternon (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. South American Journal of Herpetology 6(3): 177–188. DOI: 10.2994/057.006.0303 Reference page.
Ribeiro, S., Santos, A.P. Jr. & Zaher, H. 2015. A new species of Leposternon Wagler, 1824 (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) from northeastern Argentina. Zootaxa 4034(2): 309–324. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Ribeiro, S., Silveira, A.L. & Santos Jr., A.P. 2018. A New Species of Leposternon (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from Brazilian Cerrado with a Key to Pored Species. Journal of Herpetology 52(1): 50–58. DOI: 10.1670/16-125 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Leposternon . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 March 2021.