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Gabon beaked snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Subphylum:
Vertebrata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Serpentes
Family:
Typhlopidae
Genus:
Letheobia
Species:
L. caecus
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]

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. ^ a b The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ "Oldstyle id: 13208090". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  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. and Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes" (PDF). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 93–145. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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., and 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): 31–68.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Abstract


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