| Elegant blind 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: | Afrotyphlops |
| Species: | A. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Afrotyphlops elegans (Peters, 1868) | |
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The elegant blind snake (Afrotyphlops elegans), also called the elegant worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1868. The species occurs on the island of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe.
References
- "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1
- Afrotyphlops elegans at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
Further reading
- Peters, 1868 : Über eine neue Nagergattung, Chiropodomys penicullatus, sowie über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Typhlops elegans | |
| Afrotyphlops elegans | |
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