Emin Pasha’s worm snake

Emin Pasha’s worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Leptotyphlops
Species: L. emini
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops emini
(Boulenger, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Glauconia emini
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Stenostoma emini
    — Tornier, 1896
  • Leptotyphlops emini
    — Loveridge, 1933[1]

Emin Pasha's worm snake (Leptotyphlops emini) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to northern East Africa.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, emini, is in honor of German-born physician Eduard Schnitzer, who worked in the Ottoman Empire and became known as Emin Pasha.[4]

Geographic range

L. emini is found in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.[1]

Description

L. emini is uniformly blackish in color. It has 14 rows of scales around the body. Adults may attain a total length (including tail) of 11 cm (4.3 in).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Leptotyphlops emini ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ↑ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops emini, p. 83).
  5. ↑ Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I. Containing the Families ... Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Glauconia emini, p. 64 + Plate III, figures 8a, 8b, 8c).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1890). "Description of a new Snake of the Genus Glauconia, Gray, obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha on the Victoria Nyanza". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 6: 91-93. (Glauconia emini, new species, p. 91).
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