Gabon beaked snake

Gabon beaked snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Letheobia
Species: L. caeca
Binomial name
Letheobia caeca
Synonyms
  • Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856
  • Typhlops cæcus - Jan, 1864
  • Letheobia cæca - Cope, 1868[1]
  • Typhlops acutirostratus - Andersson, 1916
  • Typhlops avakubae - Schmidt, 1923
  • Typhlops caecus - Witte, 1961
  • Rhinotyphlops caecus - Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia acutirostratus - Wallach, 2005
  • Letheobia caecus - Broadley & Wallach, 2007[2]

The Gabon beaked snake (Letheobia caeca) is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.[3][4][5] It is endemic to Africa.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ... Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. p. 55.
  2. 1 2 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Gabon beaked snake". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Species 2000.
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ 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.

Further reading

  • Duméril, A.H.A. 1856. Note sur les reptiles du Gabon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Apliquée, Paris, Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 369–377, 417-424, 460-470, 553-562. (Onychocephalus cæcus, p. 462)
  • 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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