Letheobia wittei
Letheobia wittei, also known commonly as De Witte's gracile blind snake or Witte's beaked snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Africa.[1]
| Letheobia wittei | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Letheobia |
| Species: | L. wittei |
| Binomial name | |
| Letheobia wittei (Roux-Estève, 1974) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Etymology
The specific name, wittei, is in honor of Belgian herpetologist Gaston-François de Witte.[4]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of L. wittei is lowland rainforest.[1]
References
- Species Letheobia wittei at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
- "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- 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. (Letheobia wittei, p. 288).
Further reading
- Broadley DG, Wallach V (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. (Letheobia wittei, p. 48).
- Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. (Letheobia wittei, p. 30).
- Roux-Estève, Rolande (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Reptilia. Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Séries A, 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops wittei, new species, p. 239). (in French).
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