The Arabian worm lizard (''Agamodon arabicus'') is a species of reptiles 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 the southern part of the

Arabian peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

. The population is unknown as it has only been recorded in the past 100 years. The threats are also unknown but does not seem to be threatened by Yemen's small-scale agriculture. Not much is known about this species hence the data deficient status.

References

Agamodon Endemic fauna of Yemen Reptiles described in 1901 Taxa named by John Anderson (zoologist) Reptiles of the Arabian Peninsula {{lizard-stub