Zanzibar beaked snake

Zanzibar beaked snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Letheobia
Species: L. pallida
Binomial name
Letheobia pallida
(Cope, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Letheobia pallida Cope, 1869
  • Typhlops pallidus
    - Boulenger, 1893
  • Rhinotyphlops pallidus
    - Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia pallida - Broadley & Wallach, 2007[2]

The Zanzibar beaked snake (Letheobia pallida) is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.[3][4] It is endemic to Africa.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Malonza, P. & Spawls, S. 2014. Letheobia pallida. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T22476689A22476711. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T22476689A22476711.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
  2. ↑ 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, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  4. ↑ "Zanzibar beaked snake". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Species 2000.
  5. ↑ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

References

  • Cope, E.D. 1869. Observations on REPTILES of the Old World. Art. II. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Volume "1868" [20]:316-323.
  • Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (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&ndash, 68. Abstract
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