St. Thomas beaked snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Letheobia |
| Species: | L. feae
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| Binomial name | |
| Letheobia feae (Boulenger, 1906)
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The St. Thomas beaked snake (Letheobia feae) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is native to the Gulf of Guinea off the western coast of Central Africa.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, feae, is in honor of Leonardo Fea, who was an Italian explorer and naturalist.[2][5]
Geographic range
[edit]L. feae is found on the island of São Tomé in the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.[2]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of L. feae is forest, at altitudes of 200–300 m (660–980 ft), but it has also been found in agricultural areas.[1]
Behavior
[edit]L. feae is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ceríaco LMP (2021). "Letheobia feae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178358A126509965. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178358/126509965. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d Letheobia feae. The Reptile Database.
- ^ 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 feae, p. 88).
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1906). "Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Third Series 2: 196–216. (Typhlops feae, new species, p. 209, Figure 5; Typhlops principis, new species, pp. 209–210, Figure 6).
- Broadley DG, Wallach V (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. (Letheobia feae, new combination).
- Chippaux J-P, Jackson K (2019). Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 448 pp. ISBN 978-1421427195.
- Roux-Estève R (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique, Reptilia-Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Nouvelle Serie - Serie A, Zoologie 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops feae, new combination, p. 202). (in French).