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Zenker's worm snake

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Species of snake

Zenker's worm snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species: L. zenkeri
Binomial name
Letheobia zenkeri
Sternfeld, 1908
Synonyms

Zenker's worm snake (Letheobia zenkeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, zenkeri, is in honor of German botanist Georg August Zenker.

Geographic range

L. zenkeri is endemic to Cameroon.

Description

L. zenkeri may attain a total length (including tail) of 12–13.5 centimetres (4.7–5.3 in). It has 18 scales around the body, and is "colourless" (farblos, in German).

Reproduction

L. zenkeri is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Letheobia zenkeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
  2. "Typhlops zenkeri ". 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, vol. 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 zenkeri, p. 293).
  5. Sternfeld (1908).
  6. Boulenger (1914).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1914). "Descriptions of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eighth Series 14: 482–485. (Typhlops vermis, new species, pp. 482–483).
  • Chirio, Laurent; Lebreton, Matthew (2007). Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 688 pp. ISBN 978-2856536032. (Rhinotyphlos zenkeri, new combination). (in French).
  • Hedges, S. Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie; Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. (Letheobia zenkeri, new combination, p. 30).
  • Sternfeld R (1908). "Neue und ungenügend bekannte afrikanische Schlangen". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 92–95. (Typhlops zenkeri, new species, p. 92). (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Typhlops zenkeri


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