Tricheilostoma broadleyi

Tricheilostoma broadleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Tricheilostoma
Species: T. broadleyi
Binomial name
Tricheilostoma broadleyi
Wallach & Hahn, 1997
Synonyms
  • Leptotyphlops broadleyi Wallach & Hahn, 1997
  • Guinea broadleyi
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Tricheilostoma broadleyi — Hedges, 2011[2]

Tricheilostoma broadleyi is a species of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, broadleyi, is in honor of herpetologist Donald G. Broadley.[5]

Geographic range

T. broadleyi is found in south-central Ivory Coast at altitudes of 300–500 m (980–1,640 ft).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Trape, J., Penner, J. & Rödel , M.-O. 2013. Tricheilostoma broadleyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T203639A2769305. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T203639A2769305.en. Downloaded on 26 July 2018.
  2. 1 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, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  4. ↑ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops broadleyi, p. 39).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Guinea broadleyi, new combination).
  • Hedges SB. The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Tricheilostoma broadleyi, new combination).
  • Wallach V, Hahn DE. 1997. Leptotyphlops broadleyi, a new species of worm snake from Côte d'Ivoire (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). African J. Herp. 46 (2): 103-109.
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