Rhinotyphlops scorteccii

Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Rhinotyphlops
Species: R. scorteccii
Binomial name
Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
(Gans & Laurent, 1965)
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops scorteccii
    Gans & Laurent, 1965
  • Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
    — Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia scortecci
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007

Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, commonly known as Scortecci's blind snake,[1] is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.[2][3] It is endemic to Africa.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, scorteccii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Giuseppe Scortecci (1898-1973).[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rhinotyphlops scortecci [sic]". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ↑ "Giuseppe Scortecci". Wikispecies.
  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. (Letheobia scorteccii, Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, p. 240).

Further reading

  • Gans C, Laurent RF, Pandit H (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1-93. (Typhlops scorteccii, new species, p. 56).


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