Threadsnakes

• Body symmetry

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
  • Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry

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  bilaterally symmetric

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
  • Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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• auditory system

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0016490
  • Definition: the sensory system for the sense of hearing

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  otoliths

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800
  • Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

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• cellularity

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
  • Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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  multicellular

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
  • Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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• geographic distribution includes

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
  • Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.

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  Mozambique

  • URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973

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• hearing range

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q351087
  • Definition: range of frequencies that can be heard by humans or other animals

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  200 Hz
• hearing threshold

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1504201
  • Definition: minimum sound level that an average individual can hear

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  60 dB
• locomotion

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
  • Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
  • Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]

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  concertina

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158542
  • Definition: movement occurring in snakes and other legless organisms that consists of gripping or anchoring with portions of the body while pulling or pushing other sections in the direction of movement

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• mineralized skeleton contains

  • URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/mineralizedSkeletonContains
  • Definition: Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)

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  apatite

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254
  • Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

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• number of public records in bold

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
  • Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)

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  29
• reproduction

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003
  • Definition: The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms

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  sexual reproduction

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953
  • Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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• type specimen repository

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
  • Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).

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  Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

  • URI: http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34840

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• visual system

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
  • Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.

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  vestigial eyes

  • URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/vestigial_eyes
  • Definition: eyes that have lost some or all of their ancestral function in this lineage

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threadsnakes includes 2 children:

• Epictinae Hedges, Adalsteinsson & Branch 2009
• Leptotyphlopinae Stejneger 1892
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