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Steinhaus's blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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
  • 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. The species is endemic to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, steinhausi, is in honor of German marine biologist Carl Otto Steinhaus (1870–1919) of the Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg.

Geographic range

A. steinhausi is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Republic of the Congo.

Reproduction

A. steinhausi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Species Afrotyphlops steinhausi at 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).
  • Chirio, Laurent; Ineich, Ivan (2006). "Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic". African Journal of Herpetology 55 (1): 23–59. (Rhinotyphlops steinhausi, new combination).
  • 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).


Taxon identifiers
Afrotyphlops steinhausi


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