Afrotyphlops anomalus

Afrotyphlops anomalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Afrotyphlops
Species: A. anomalus
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops anomalus
(Bocage, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Onychocephalus anomalus Bocage, 1873
  • Typhlops anchietae Bocage, 1886
  • Typhlops anomalus
    - Boulenger, 1893
  • Rhinotyphlops anomalus
    - Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Megatyphlops anomalus
    - Broadley & Wallach, 2009[1]

Afrotyphlops anomalus, commonly known as the Angolan giant blind snake or the anomalous beaked snake,[1] is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.[2][3] It is endemic to Africa.[1] Its classification was changed from Rhinotyphlops to Megatyphlops when Rhinotyphlops was found to be polyphyletic.[4] In 2014 Megatyphlops was changed to Afrotyphlops.[5]

Geographic range

It is found in southeastern Angola.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ↑ "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ↑ Pyron, Robert Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T.; Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes" (PDF). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 93&ndash, 145. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
  5. ↑ http://www.caribbeanherpetology.org/pdfs/ch49.pdf

Further reading

  • Bocage, J.V.B. 1873. Reptiles nouveaux de l'intérieur de Mossamedes. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes. Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Volume 4, Number XV., pp. 247–253.
  • Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species" (PDF). Zootaxa (2255): 1&ndash, 100.
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