Letheobia caeca

Letheobia caeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species: L. caecus
Binomial name
Letheobia caeca
A.H.A. Duméril, 1856
Synonyms
  • Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856
  • Typhlops cæcus - Jan, 1864
  • Letheobia cæca - Cope, 1868[1]
  • Typhlops acutirostratus - Andersson, 1916
  • Typhlops avakubae - Schmidt, 1923
  • Typhlops caecus - Witte, 1961
  • Rhinotyphlops caecus - Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia acutirostratus - Wallach, 2005
  • Letheobia caecus - Broadley & Wallach, 2007[2]

Letheobia caeca is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.[3][4][5] It is endemic to Africa.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ... Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. p. 55.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Letheobia caeca at the Catalogue of Life
  4. ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  5. ↑ Pyron, Robert Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T. and Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (1): 93–145. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.

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