Typhlops schmidti

Typhlops schmidti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Subfamily: Afrotyphlopinae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. schmidti
Binomial name
Typhlops schmidti
Laurent, 1956
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops schmidti
    Laurent, 1956
  • Rhinotyphlops schmidti
    Wallach, 2003
  • Afrotyphlops schmidti
    Hedges et al., 2014

Typhlops schmidti is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, schmidti, is in honor of American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt.[4]

Geographic range

T. schmidti is found in Tanzania, Zambia, and eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Afrotyphlops schmidti ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops ". 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, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series), ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Typhlops schmidti, p. 119).
  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. (Rhinotyphlops schmidti, p. 236).

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