Eva M. Albert, Rafael Zardoya, Mario Garcı́a-Parı́s,
... the phylogeny of worm lizards of the genus Blanus and the phylogeography of its Iberian representatives. We ... partial gene sequences to resolve phylogenetic relationships within Blanus . The Eastern Mediterranean Blanus strauchi was recovered as sister group of Western Mediterranean species. Iberian and North African Blanus were recovered as reciprocally monophyletic groups. The same ... used to determine phylogeography of 47 populations of Blanus cinereus . Mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data recovered two ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2007 - Wiley | Molecular Ecology
Andrea Villa, Martin Kirchner, David M. Alba, Federico Bernardini, Arnau Bolet, Àngel H. Luján, Josep Fortuny, Christy A. Hipsley, Johannes Müller, Roberto Sindaco, Claudio Tuniz, Massimo Delfino,
Worm lizards, or amphisbaenians, of the genus Blanus are found in various countries around the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to four extinct species, seven extant taxa are currently recognized. Here, we ... first comparative analysis of the cranial osteology of Blanus including all extant species. The results of this ... that can be used to discriminate among different Blanus species. No clear osteological diagnostic features can be ... affinities of extant and extinct taxa. The extinct Blanus mendezi, for example, recalls the western Blanus species ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
2018 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Aaron M. Bauer,
Presently two species of the genus Blanus are known from the Iberian Peninsula, Blanus cinereus Vandelli, 1797 and Blanus mariae Albert & Fernández, 2009 The latter was recently described based ... provide a new nomenclatural arrangement to the group. Blanus mariae is considered a junior synonym of B. cinereus and we describe Blanus vandellii sp. nov. as a new species. A ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Natural History
Roberto Sindaco, Panagiotis Kornilios, Roberto Sacchi, Petros Lymberakis,
... and nuclear DNA sequences reveals that the polytypic Blanus strauchi is a species complex including three well- ... p-distances for the same markers observed between Blanus species-pairs from Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula, ... the basis of this evidence, the taxonomy of Blanus strauchi is re-assessed: the Western clade corresponds ... names, and therefore it is described here as Blanus alexandri sp. nov.
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2014 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Daniel Jablonski, Riyad Sadek,
The genus Blanus Wagler, 1830 represents limbless, burrowing reptiles of the family Blanidae with disjunct circum-Mediterranean distribution. The recently described species Blanus alexandri Sindaco, Kornilios, Sacchi & Lymberakis, 2014 is known ... to this species by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Blanus alexandri comprises at least seven deeply evolved phylogenetic ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Zoology in the Middle East
... presence of two well defined allopatric clades of Blanus cinereus in the Iberian Peninsula. Using both univariate ... establish a taxonomic re-arrangement for the Iberian Blanus we designate a lectotype for B. cinereus from ... of central Iberia and describe a new species; Blanus mariae sp. nov. from southwestern regions of the ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2009 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Serdar Düşen, İsmail Hakkı Uğurtaş, Ali Aydoğdu,
Abstract In this investigation, seventeen Turkish worm lizards, Blanus strauchi, and eighteen slow worms, Anguis fragilis, collected from Turkey, were examined for helminths. Blanus strauchi harbored 2 species of Nematoda: Pharyngodon spinicauda ... entomelas, Oswaldocruzia filiformis, Cosmocerca ornata and Oxysomatium brevicaudatum. Blanus strauchi represents a new host record for Pharyngodon ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
2010 - De Gruyter Open | Helminthologia
Filipa L. Sampaio, D. James Harris, Ana Perera, Daniele Salvi,
... occurrence of cryptic species probable. The Mediterranean genus Blanus includes five species – three of them have been ... single-gene analyses to estimate phylogenetic relationships among Blanus and to assess patterns of intraspecific differentiation within ... and overlaps with B. cinereus in central Portugal. Blanus tingitanus showed two phylogeographic groups, from the northern ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2014 - Wiley | Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
... have been extended to two new species: to Blanus cinereus of the family Amphisbaenidae and Diplometopon zarudnyi of the family Trogonophidae. Blanus, considered one of the most primitive of this ...
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
1975 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Biochemical and morphological divergence between Spanish populations of Blanus from the province of Cadiz and Moroccan populations ... populations as well. Iberian populations are referred to Blanus cinereus, Moroccan populations to the south of Rabat ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
1988 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
... being more closely related to rhineurids, and with Blanus representing a basal amphisbaenian. Rhineuridae is also revised ... clade. Bipes is the most basal amphisbaenian and Blanus is the sister-group to all remaining amphisbaenians. ... character evolution. The basal positions of Bipes and Blanus imply that a round-headed cranial shape is ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2003 - Illinois Natural History Survey | Herpetological Monographs
Stephen D. Busack, Robin Lawson,
... Rana perezi and Rana saharica (Anura, Ranidae), and Blanus cinereus and Blanus tingitanus (Squamata, Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) is substantial, whereas morphological differentiation is moderate in Rana and Blanus, but is substantial in Discoglossus. Differentiation in mitochondrial ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2008 - Oxford University Press | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Raquel Vaconcelos, D. James Harris, Miguel Á. Carretero,
... The evolutionary relationships of amphisbaenians of the genus Blanus have long been controversial. Presently two species are recognized for Morocco — Blanus tingitanus and B. mettetali and one for Iberia — ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2006 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia
Elena V. Syromyatnikova, E. S. Kovalenko, A. A. Kaloyan,
... material available. A new record of the genus Blanus from the late Miocene of the Egorovka 1 ... is reported here. Based on its dental morphology, Blanus from Egorovka differs from all extinct species of ... most closely related to the Eastern clade of Blanus (B. strauchi complex) in having enlarged second and small third dentary teeth. Blanus from Egorovka is the second fossil record of ... a wider past range of the Eastern European Blanus, including the northern Black Sea coastal area.
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Geobios
... described and figured the skulls of Amphisbaena fuliginosa, Blanus cinereus, Lepidosternon microcephalum and Trogonophis wiegmaenni. In 1884 ... a rather accurate report on the skull of Blanus cinereus (under the name of Amphisbaena cinerea); and ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1944 - University of Notre Dame | The American Midland Naturalist
José Martı́n, Pílar López, Alfredo Salvador,
Body temperatures of Blanus cinereus recorded in the field in central Spain were positively correlated with corresponding substrate and air temperatures.Mean body ...
Tópico(s): Physiological and biochemical adaptations
1990 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia
... communication and chemosensory sex recognition of the amphisbaenian Blanus cinereus. We expected that sexual discrimination in amphisbaenians ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2009 - Oxford University Press | Chemical Senses
Sabine Renous, Jean‐Pierre Gasc, A Raynaud,
... of the pelvi‐cloacal region of the amphisbaenian Blanus cinereus reveals that the species has real hind ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
1991 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
Márton Venczel, Emanoil Ştiucă,
... Ophisaurus sp., Hierophis cf. hungaricus, Macrovipera sp.). Pelobates, Blanus cf. gracilis and Scolecophidia indet., were subterranean dwellers. ... of taxa (e.g., Triturus cf. marmoratus, Ophisaurus, Blanus cf. gracilis) indicate close palaeobiogeographic connections with the ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2008 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Geodiversitas
Pílar López, José Martı́n, Andrés Barbosa,
... in the laboratory predatory attacks toward individual amphisbaenians (Blanus cinereus), and examined whether their antipredator and burrowing ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2000 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Zoology
Arnau Bolet, Massimo Delfino, Josep Fortuny, Sergio Almécija, Josep M. Robles, David M. Alba,
... known fossil amphisbaenian skull from Europe – attributed to Blanus mendezi sp. nov. (Amphisbaenia, Blanidae) – which represents the ... NE Iberian Peninsula), unambiguously asserts the presence of Blanus in the Miocene of Europe. This reinforces the ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
2014 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Pílar López, Alfredo Salvador, José Martı́n,
... studied the thermal ecology of the amphisbaenian reptile Blanus cinereus in central Spain, focusing on the relationship ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1998 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Zoology
Georgios L. Georgalis, Kazım Halaçlar, Serdar Mayda, Tanju Kaya, Dinçer Ayaz,
... D. Ayaz. 2018. First fossil find of the Blanus strauchi complex (Amphisbaenia, Blanidae) from the Miocene of ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Bayram Göçmen, Ahmad M. Disi, Mehmet Zülfü Yıldız,
Abstract The amphisbaenian Blanus strauchi aporus has been rediscovered in Matn Abu Rayya, Tartous, with a voucher specimen, after approximately 125 years. The ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Zoology in the Middle East
Pílar López, Pílar López, José Martı́n, Pílar López, José Martı́n, Alfredo Salvador,
... prey capture and handling behaviour of the amphisbaenian Blanus cinereus . This amphisbaenian showed four different handling modes ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2013 - Brill | Amphibia-Reptilia
Carmen Díaz‐Paniagua, M. Carmen Blázquez, Claudia Keller, Ana C. Andreu, Gaspar Olmedo Granados, José Antonio Mateo,
The main activity period of Blanus cinereus occurred from March to July, and a second period with lower activity was detected in autumn. Individuals were mainly diurnal, ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1995 - British Herpetological Society | Herpetological Journal
Christopher J. Bell, Cristhian Cadena, Antonio Meza, Lauren Rudie, Patrick J. Lewis,
... skeletal specimens. Seven species of the “round‐headed” Blanus (Blanidae) were also analyzed using HRXCT. The goal ... a comparative analysis of all extant species of Blanus rather than a detailed, bone‐by‐bone description ... A . alba —and to a lesser degree with Blanus , reveal a complex mosaic of morphological features of ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2023 - Wiley | The Anatomical Record
José Martı́n, Pilar López And Andrés Barbosa,
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2000 - British Herpetological Society | Herpetological Journal
... 3, 3; vestigesl of a shoulder girdle in Blanus cinereus, and other forms). Furthermore there are similarities ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1945 - University of Notre Dame | The American Midland Naturalist
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Tópico(s): Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
1966 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia