Biology:Emin Pasha’s worm snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Genus: | Leptotyphlops |
| Species: | L. emini
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| Leptotyphlops emini (Boulenger, 1890)
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Emin Pasha's worm snake (Leptotyphlops emini) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to northern East Africa.[1]
Etymology
The specific name, emini, is in honor of Germany -born physician Eduard Schnitzer, who worked in the Ottoman Empire and became known as Emin Pasha.[4]
Geographic range
L. emini is found in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.[1]
Description
L. emini is uniformly blackish in color. It has 14 rows of scales around the body. Adults may attain a total length (including tail) of 11 cm (4.3 in).[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Leptotyphlops emini ". 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).
- ↑ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174335. 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. (Leptotyphlops emini, p. 83).
- ↑ Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I. Containing the Families ... Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Glauconia emini, p. 64 + Plate III, figures 8a, 8b, 8c).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1890). "Description of a new Snake of the Genus Glauconia, Gray, obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha on the Victoria Nyanza". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 6: 91-93. (Glauconia emini, new species, p. 91).
Wikidata ☰ Q3013518 entry
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