Zanzibar beaked snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. pallida
Binomial name
Letheobia pallida
(Cope, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Letheobia pallida Cope, 1869
  • Typhlops pallidus
    - Boulenger, 1893
  • Rhinotyphlops pallidus
    - Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia pallida - Broadley & Wallach, 2007[2]

The Zanzibar beaked snake (Letheobia pallida) is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.[3][4] It is endemic to Africa.[5]

Notes

  1. Malonza, P.; Spawls, S. (2014). "Letheobia pallida". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T22476689A22476711. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T22476689A22476711.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. 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).
  4. "Oldstyle id: 13201164". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  5. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

References

  • Cope, E.D. 1869. Observations on REPTILES of the Old World. Art. II. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Volume "1868" [20]:316-323.
  • 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 (1515): 31–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1515.1.2. Abstract
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