The angled worm lizard (''Agamodon anguliceps'') is a species of reptile in the family
Trogonophidae
Trogonophidae (Palearctic worm lizards or desert ringed lizards) is a small family of amphisbaenians, containing five species in four genera.
Geographic range
Trogonophids are found in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, ...
. It is found in
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู
ุงู, aแนฃ-แนขลซmฤl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
in the
Horn of Africa.
[ Markings on specimens of ''Agamodon anguliceps'' are mottled as yellowish white with darker brown markings along the side of the lizard.] The anatomical skull structure of the angled worm lizard features a short, sharp angle between the occipitoparietal and facial plane region.
References
Agamodon
Endemic fauna of Somalia
Reptiles of Somalia
Reptiles described in 1882
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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