Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Taxonomy of the family Amphisbaenidae Bibliography of the genus Aulura Biodiversity of the family Amphisbaenidae Genus Aulura Auro Worm Lizard Auro-Doppelschleiche Auro-ormeøgle 1914 Aulura Barbour (type species: Aulura anomala Barbour 1914) Contents: 1 species, which is endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Remarks: Mott & Vieites (2009) synonymized Aulura (as well as Anops, Bronia, Cercolophia, and Leposternon) with Amphisbaena. These genera are retained as valid herein, following many subsequent works (e.g., Ribeiro, Nogueira, Cintra, Silva & Zaher 2011; Ribeiro, Santos-Junior & Zaher 2015; Costa & Bernils 2014; Cacciali, Scott, Aquino-Ortiz, Fitzgerald & Smith 2016, Ribeiro, Silveira & Santos-Junior 2018). Distribution: As for the single species. Aulura anomala Auro Worm Lizard, (Barbour's Worm Lizard) Auro-Doppelschleiche Auro-ormeøgle 1914 Aulura anomala Barbour Amphisbaena anomala Mott & Vieites 2009 [by implication] Distribution: Brazil (Ceara, Maranhao, Para, Tocantins).