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Stejneger's beaked snake

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Species of snake

Stejneger's beaked snake
Conservation status

Least Concern  (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. stejnegeri
Binomial name
Letheobia stejnegeri
(Loveridge, 1931)
Synonyms

Stejneger's beaked snake (Letheobia stejnegeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Middle Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honor of Leonhard Stejneger, Norwegian-born American herpetologist at the Smithsonian Institution for over 60 years.

Geographic range

L. stejnegeri is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Congo.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. stejnegeri is forest.

Reproduction

L. stejnegeri is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Zassi-Boulou, A.-G.; Kusamba, C. (2021). "Letheobia stejnegeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178675A126510139. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178675A126510139.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
  3. ^ Letheobia stejnegeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 December 2018.
  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. (Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri, p. 252).

Further reading

  • 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 stejnegeri, new combination).
  • Loveridge A (1931). "A new snake of the genus Typhlops from the Belgian Congo". Copeia 1931 (3): 92–93. (Typhlops stejnegeri, new species).
Taxon identifiers
Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri


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