Sundevall's worm snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Tricheilostoma
Species:
T. sundewalli
Binomial name
Tricheilostoma sundewalli
(Jan, 1861)
Synonyms[1]
  • Stenostoma sundewalli
    Jan, 1862
  • Glauconia sundevalli [sic]
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Leptotyphlops sundevalli
    — Villiers, 1950
  • Leptotyphlops sundewalli
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Guinea sundewalli
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Tricheilostoma sundewalli
    — Hedges, 2011

Sundevall's worm snake (Tricheilostoma sundewalli) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Central Africa and West Africa.

Etymology

The epithet, sundewalli, is in honor of Carl Jakob Sundevall, a Swedish zoologist.[4]

Geographic range

T. sundewalli is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tricheilostoma sundewalli ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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. ↑ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  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. (Leptotyphlops sundewalli, p. 258).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zotaxa 2244: 1-50. (Guinea sundewalli, new combination).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. ("Glauconia sundevallii [sic]", p. 68).
  • Jan G (1862). "Note sulla famiglia dei Tiflopidi sui loro generi e sulle specie del genere Stenostoma". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 1: 178-199. (Stenostoma sundewalli, new species, p. 191). (in Italian).
  • Hedges SB (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Tricheilostoma sundewalli, new combination).


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