Gabon beaked snake

Gabon beaked snake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. caeca
Binomial name
	Letheobia caeca; (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)
Synonyms
	Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856; Typhlops cæcus – Jan, 1864; Letheobia cæca – Cope, 1868; Typhlops acutirostratus Andersson, 1916; Typhlops avakubae – Schmidt, 1923; Typhlops caecus – de Witte, 1961; Rhinotyphlops caecus – Roux-Estève, 1974; McDiarmid et al., 1999; Letheobia acutirostratus – Wallach, 2005; Letheobia caecus – Broadley & Wallach, 2007;

The Gabon beaked snake (Letheobia caeca) is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae. It is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is known from Gabon (its type locality), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ghana. However, the identity of different populations is not fully clear.^[3]

References edit

^ 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.
^ 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).
^ ^a ^b Letheobia caeca at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 December 2018.

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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