Elegant blind snake
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Afrotyphlops |
Species: | A. elegans
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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.[1][2] It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1868. The species occurs on the island of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe.[3]
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
Categories:
- Afrotyphlops
- Reptiles described in 1868
- Endemic vertebrates of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Fauna of Príncipe
- Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
- Scolecophidia stubs