Amphisbaena alba Strauch, 1881

White Amphisbaenid,

Amphisbaena alba Strauch, 1881

An individual photographed on 3 April 2021 by TL in Compañía Kapi’ipe, Barrero Grande (25°23’49’’S 57°03’29’’W) Cordillera department is the first departmental record ( Fig. 7 View Fig ). Additionally, on the iNaturalist platform, there are two photographs of interest of the species from nearby Caacupé (25°23’19.7’’S 57°08’57.1’’W), also Cordillera department by Joaquín Movia on 4 April 2021 (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72980135) and another from close to the campus of the Universidad Nacional de Caaguazú (25°26’44.6’’S 56°00’49.5’’W), Caaguazú department on 15 February 2024 by user jochen38 (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199356048) which is the first record for that department. The   GoogleMaps species is easily identifiable on the basis of the yellowish colouration with paler snout, enlarged temporal region and tail of similar width to the body. This   GoogleMaps is an uncommon amphisbaenid known only from the northern half of the Oriental region   GoogleMaps of Paraguay having been previously reported from Amambay, Alto Paraná, Central, Concepción and San Pedro departments ( Cacciali et al., 2016b; Smith, Atkinson, Brouard, Pheasey, 2016). It is considered to be “Least Concern” in Paraguay ( Martínez et al., 2020c).