Amphisbaena kingii
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
King's worm lizard (Amphisbaena kingii) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is endemic to South America. The specific name, kingii, is in honor of Australian marine surveyor Philip Parker King.
A. kingii is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. The preferred natural habitats of A. kingii are savanna and grassland. A. kingii may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 21 cm (8.3 in), plus a tail about 2 cm (0.79 in) long. Dorsally, it is purplish brown. Ventrally, it is whitish.
A. kingii is oviparous. Bell T (1833). "[Characters of two New Genera of Reptiles]". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833: 98–99. (Anops kingii, new species, p. 99). (in English and Latin). Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Amphisbæna kingii, new combination, pp. 496–498). (in French).
Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
No species of the same family or order lives in Cordoba, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a King's Worm Lizard sighting in Cordoba on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 6th most-seen of the 7 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a King's Worm Lizard in Cordoba on a given day, against under 5% in March–July and October–December, the lowest months. Those are among Cordoba's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against 5 mm in August.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most King's Worm Lizard sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cordoba, in our data
Cordoba is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate King's Worm Lizard sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the King's Worm Lizard is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Cordoba (5 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
