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Species of snake

St. Thomas beaked snake
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species: L. feae
Binomial name
Letheobia feae
(Boulenger, 1906)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops feae
    Boulenger, 1906
  • Typhlops principis
    Boulenger, 1906
  • Rhinotyphlops feae
    — Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia feae
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007

The St. Thomas beaked snake (Letheobia feae) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to the Gulf of Guinea off the western coast of Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, feae, is in honor of Leonardo Fea, who was an Italian explorer and naturalist.

Geographic range

L. feae is found on the island of São Tomé in the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.

Habitat

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.

Behavior

L. feae is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

L. feae is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Letheobia feae. The Reptile Database.
  3. 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).
  4. "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. 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

  • 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).
Taxon identifiers
Rhinotyphlops feae


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