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Rhineura
Rhineura floridana, known as the North American worm lizard, Florida worm lizard, or thunderworm, is the only member of the monotypic genus Rhineura. This species is found only in Florida no further north than the panhandle. No subspecies are currently recognized.
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 36980.