Steinhaus's_blind_snake

Steinhaus's blind snake

Steinhaus's blind snake

Species of snake

Steinhaus's worm snake (Afrotyphlops steinhausi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Central Africa.

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Etymology

The specific name, steinhausi, is in honor of German marine biologist Carl Otto Steinhaus (1870–1919) of the Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg.[4]

Geographic range

A. steinhausi is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Republic of the Congo.[1]

Reproduction

A. steinhausi is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Species Afrotyphlops steinhausi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. [2]
    "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  3. [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.
  4. [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 steinhausi, p. 252).

Further reading

  • Broadley DG, Wallach V (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species". Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. (Afrotyphlops steinhausi, new combination, p. 34).
  • Chirio, Laurent; Ineich, Ivan (2006). "Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic". African Journal of Herpetology 55 (1): 23–59. (Rhinotyphlops steinhausi, new combination).
  • Werner F (1909). "Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Schlangen ". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 26 (Supplement 2): 205–247. (Typhlops steinhausi, new species, pp. 209–210). (in German).



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