Letheobia graueri
Appearance
Letheobia graueri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Letheobia |
Species: | L. graueri
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Binomial name | |
Letheobia graueri (Sternfeld, 1912)
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Letheobia graueri, also known as the Lake Tanganyika blind snake or Sternfeld's beaked snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Africa.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, graueri, is in honor of Rudolf Grauer, an Austrian zoologist and explorer.[5]
Geographic range
It is found in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and westen Uganda.[2]
References
- ^ Spawls, S. 2011. Letheobia graueri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T178733A7605276. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T178733A7605276.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
- ^ a b c "Letheobia graueri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ 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. (Rhinotyphlops graueri, p. 106).
Further reading
- Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia". pp. 197–279. In: Schuboltz R (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV [Volume 4], Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhard & Biermann. 405 pp. + Plates I-XI. (Typhlops graueri, new species, p. 264). (in German).