Moroccan worm lizard [SEP] parent taxon
Moroccan worm lizard
The Moroccan worm lizard ("Blanus mettetali" ) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is endemic to Morocco.
Etymology.
The specific name, "mettetali", is in honor of a Mr. Mettetal who was head of the Laboratory of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Morocco.
Habitat.
The natural habitats of "B. mettetali" are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, arable land, and pastureland.
Conservation status
but instead, live in marine or freshwater environments, or underground by burrowing.
In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, "vermes", used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word "wyrm". Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slowworm "Anguis", a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals