Stejneger's beaked snake
| Stejneger's beaked snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Letheobia |
| Species: | L. stejnegeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Letheobia stejnegeri (Loveridge, 1931)
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Stejneger's beaked snake (Letheobia stejnegeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Middle Africa.
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]L. stejnegeri is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Congo.[1][3]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of L. stejnegeri is forest.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]L. stejnegeri is oviparous.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b c Letheobia stejnegeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 December 2018.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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).