Combinations

• Onychocephalus mucruso Peters, 1854: 621 [original combination]
• Typhlops mucruso — Peters, 1882: 95 [subsequent combination]
• Rhinotyphlops schlegelii mucroso [sic] — Roux-Estève, 1974: 166 [subsequent combination]
• Megatyphlops mucruso — Broadley & Wallach, 2009: 52 [subsequent combination]
• Afrotyphlops mucruso — Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal, 2014: 20 [subsequent combination]

Primary references

• Peters, W.C.H. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 614–628. BHL

• Broadley, D.G. & 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. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Afrotyphlops mucruso. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 January 2019.