Steinhaus's worm snake

Steinhaus's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Afrotyphlops
Species: A. steinhausi
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops steinhausi
F. Werner, 1909
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops steinhausi
    F. Werner, 1909
  • Rhinotyphlops steinhausi
    — Chirio & Ineich, 2006
  • Afrotyphlops steinhausi
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2009

Steinhaus's worm snake (Afrotyphlops steinhausi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, steinhausi, is in honor of Carl Otto Steinhaus (1870–1919) of the Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg.[4]

Geographic range

It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Republic of the Congo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Afrotyphlops steinhausi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  3. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  4. ↑ 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. (Typhlops steinhausi, p. 252).

Further reading

  • Broadley DG, Wallach V (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". Zootaxa 2255: 1-100. (Afrotyphlops steinhausi, new combination, p. 34).
  • Werner F (1909). "Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Schlangen ". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 26 (Supplement 2): 205-247. (Typhlops steinhausi, new species, pp. 209–210). (in German).
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