Afrotyphlops gierrai

Afrotyphlops gierrai, also known as the Gierra's blind snake or Usambara spotted worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Afrotyphlops gierrai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:
A. gierrai
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops gierrai
Mocquard, 1897
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops gierrai
    Mocquard, 1897
  • Typhlops punctatus gierrai
    — Barbour & Loveridge, 1928
  • Rhinotyphlops gierrai
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2000
  • Afrotyphlops gierrai
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2009

Etymology

The specific name, gierrai, is in honor of Mr. A. Gierra, an expert in the languages of North Africa and East Africa, who collected the type specimen.[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to Tanzania, where it is found in the Ukaguru Mountains, the Ulaguru Mountains, and the Usambara Mountains.[2]

References
  1. Menegon, M. & Spawls, S. 2010. Afrotyphlops gierrai. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178405A7540131. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178405A7540131.en. Downloaded on 03 August 2018.
  2. "Afrotyphlops gierrai ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  4. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  5. 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. (Typhlops gierrai, p. 100).

Further reading
  • Broadley DG, Wallach V (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species". Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. (Afrotyphlops gierrai, new combination, p. 38).
  • Mocquard F (1897). "Note sur quelques Reptiles de Tanga, don de M. [=Monsieur ] Gierra ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 3 (4): 122–123. (Typhlops gierrai, new species). (in French).
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