Cross's beaked snake

Cross's beaked snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Letheobia
Species: L. crossii
Binomial name
Letheobia crossii
(Boulenger, 1893)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops crossii
    Boulenger, 1893
  • Rhinotyphlops crossii
    — Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia crossii
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007

Cross's beaked snake (Letheobia crossii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] R. crossii is endemic to West Africa.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, crossii, is in honor of British explorer William Henry Crosse (1859-1903).[5]

Geographic range

It is found in Nigeria and Togo.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Trape, J., Luiselli, L. & Branch, W.R. 2013. Letheobia crossii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T13300841A13300850. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T13300841A13300850.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Letheobia crossii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ 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. (Rhinotyphlops crossii, p. 62).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Typhlops crossii, new species, p. 52 + Plate III, Figures 5a, 5b, 5c).
  • Boulenger GA (1895). "On some new or little-known Reptiles obtained by W.H. Crosse, Esq., on the Niger". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 16: 32-34. (Typhlops crossii, p. 33).
  • Broadley DG, Wallach V (2007). "A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope, revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa 1515: 31-68. (Letheobia crossii, new combination).
  • Roux-Estève R (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique, Reptilia-Serpentes ". Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Nouvelle Serie - Serie A, Zoologie 87: 1-75. (Rhinotyphlops crossii, new combination). (in French).
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