Letheobia graueri

Letheobia graueri, also known commonly as the Lake Tanganyika gracile blind snake, Grauer's gracile blind snake,[5] Sternfeld's beaked snake, and Grauer's blind snake,[6] is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to central and eastern Africa.[2]

Letheobia graueri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. graueri
Binomial name
Letheobia graueri
(Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops graueri
    Sternfeld, 1912
  • Rhinotyphlops graueri
    — Roux-Estève, 1974[3][4]
  • Letheobia graueri
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, graueri, is in honor of Rudolf Grauer, an Austrian zoologist and explorer.[6]

Geographic range

L. graueri is found in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and western Uganda.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. graueri is savanna, but it has also been found in agricultural areas.[1]

Behavior

L. graueri is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

L. graueri is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Spawls, S.; Branch, W.R.; Wagner, P.; Safari, I.; Chenga, J. (2021). "Letheobia graueri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178733A46181990. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T178733A46181990.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Letheobia graueri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 January 2019.
  3. 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).
  4. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-4729-4309-5. (ePDF).
  6. 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 graueri, p. 106).

Further reading
  • Dehling JM, Hinkel HH, Ensikat H-J, Babilon, Fischer E (2018). "A new blind snake of the genus Letheobia (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Rwanda with redescriptions of L. gracilis (Sternfeld, 1910) and L. graueri (Sternfeld, 1912) and the introduction of a non-invasive preparation procedure for scanning electron microscopy in zoology". Zootaxa 4378 (4): 480–490.
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. (Letheobia graueri, new combination).
  • Roux-Estève R (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Reptilia. Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Nouvelle Série – Série A, Zoologie (Paris) 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops graueri, new combination, p. 227). (in French).
  • Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia ". pp. 197–279. In: Schubotz H (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV [Volume 4], Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 405 pp. + Plates I-XI. (Typhlops graueri, new species, p. 264). (in German).



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