Biology:Stejneger's beaked snake

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Stejneger's beaked snake
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. stejnegeri
Binomial name
Letheobia stejnegeri
(Loveridge, 1931)
Synonyms[3]
  • Typhlops stejnegeri
    Loveridge, 1931
  • Typhlops vanderysti
    de Witte, 1933
  • Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999[2]
  • Letheobia stejnegeri
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007

Stejneger's beaked snake (Letheobia stejnegeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Middle Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honor of Leonhard Stejneger, Norwegian-born American herpetologist at the Smithsonian Institution for over 60 years.[4]

Geographic range

L. stejnegeri is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Congo.[1][3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. stejnegeri is forest.[1]

Reproduction

L. stejnegeri is oviparous.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zassi-Boulou, A.-G.; Kusamba, C. (2021). "Letheobia stejnegeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178675A126510139. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178675A126510139.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178675/126510139. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Letheobia stejnegeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 December 2018.
  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. (Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri, p. 252).

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 stejnegeri, new combination).
  • Loveridge A (1931). "A new snake of the genus Typhlops from the Belgian Congo". Copeia 1931 (3): 92–93. (Typhlops stejnegeri, new species).

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