Mann's worm snake

Mann's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Afrotyphlops
Species: A. manni
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops manni
Loveridge, 1941
Synonyms
  • Typhlops manni
    Loveridge, 1941
  • Letheobia manni
    — Hedges et al., 2014
  • Afrotyphlos manni
    — Pyron & Wallach, 2014

Mann's worm snake (Afrotyphlops manni) is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to West Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, manni, is in honor of American entomologist William Montana Mann.[4]

Geographic range

It is found in Guinea and Liberia.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rödel , M.-O., Branch, W.R., Penner, J. & Ineich, I. 2013. Afrotyphlops manni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T22476010A18191899. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T22476010A18191899.en. Downloaded on 03 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  3. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  4. ↑ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops manni, p. 167).
  5. ↑ "Afrotyphlops manni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Loveridge, Arthur (1941). "Report on the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition's collection of reptiles and amphibians from Liberia". Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 91: 113-139. (Typhlops manni, new species, p. 118).
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