Stejneger's beaked snake
| Stejneger's beaked snake | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Letheobia |
| Species: | L. stejnegeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Letheobia stejnegeri (Loveridge, 1931) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Stejneger's beaked snake (Letheobia stejnegeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Africa.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honor of Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Norwegian-born American herpetologist at the Smithsonian Institution for over 60 years.[5]
References
- ↑ Wallach, V. & Schmitz, A. 2010. Letheobia stejnegeri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178675A7593420. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178675A7593420.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
- 1 2 "Letheobia stejnegeri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
- ↑ "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ↑ 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 stejnegeri, p. 252).
Further reading
- Loveridge A (1931). "A New Snake of the Genus Typhlops from the Belgian Congo". Copeia 1931 (3): 92-93. (Typhlops stejnegeri, new species).
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