Letheobia caeca
| Letheobia caeca | |
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| 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 | |
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Letheobia caeca is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.[3][4][5] It is endemic to Africa.[2]
References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Letheobia caeca". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Species 2000.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Pyron, Robert Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T.; Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes" (PDF). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 93–145. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911
. PMID 23627680.
Further reading
- Duméril, A.H.A. 1856. Note sur les reptiles du Gabon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Apliquée, Paris, Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 369–377, 417-424, 460-470, 553-562. (Onychocephalus cæcus, p. 462)
- Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (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. Abstract
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