Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus

Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to the Horn of Africa.

Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Rhinotyphlops
Species:
R. ataeniatus
Binomial name
Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus
(Boulenger, 1912)
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops unitaeniatus var. ataeniatus
    Boulenger, 1912
  • Typhlops unitaeniatus ataeniatus
    — Parker, 1949
  • Typhlops ataeniatus
    — Gans & Laurent, 1965
  • Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus
    — McDiardmid et al., 1999
  • Letheobia ataeniatus
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007
  • Letheobia ataeniata
    — Largen & Spawls, 2010
  • Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Geographic range

R. ataeniatus is found in eastern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and Somalia.[1]

References
  1. "Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  2. 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).
  3. "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1912). "Missione per la Frontiera Italo-Etiopica sotto il commando del Capitano Carlo Citerni - Risultati zoologici - list of the Reptiles and Batrachians". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Third Series, 5: 329–332. (Typhlops unitaeniatus var. ataeniatus, new variation, p. 331). (in English).


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