''Cadea palirostrata'', also known as Dickerson's worm lizard or the Cuban sharp-nosed amphisbaena, is a species of
amphisbaenian in the family
Cadeidae, described by herpetologist
Mary Cynthia Dickerson in 1913. This species is endemic to
Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (; en, Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Islan ...
(formerly Isle of Pines), an island of western Cuba.
References
palirostrata
Reptiles of Cuba
Endemic fauna of Cuba
Reptiles described in 1916
Taxa named by Mary Cynthia Dickerson
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