Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Typhlopidae
Subfamilia: Afrotyphlopinae
Genus: Letheobia
Species (37):
L. acutirostrata –
L. akagerae –
L. angeli –
L. caeca –
L. coecata –
L. crossii –
L. debilis –
L. decorosus –
L. episcopus –
L. erythraea –
L. feae –
L. gracilis –
L. graueri –
L. jubana –
L. kibarae –
L. largeni –
L. leucosticta –
L. logonensis –
L. lumbriciformis –
L. manni –
L. mbeerensis –
L. newtoni –
L. pallida –
L. pauwelsi –
L. pembana –
L. praeocularis –
L. rufescens –
L. simoni –
L. somalica –
L. stejnegeri –
L. sudanensis –
L. swahilica –
L. toritensis –
L. uluguruensis –
L. weidholzi –
L. wittei –
L. zenkeri
Name
- Type species: Onychocephalus caecus Duméril, 1856, by subsequent designation of Peters (1881: 70).
References
Primary references
- Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 96–140. BHL
Additional references
- Broadley, D.G. & 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. 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.
- Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829(1): 1–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1
Reference page. - Malonza, P.K., Bauer, A.M. & Ngwava, J.M. 2016. A new species of Letheobia (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from central Kenya. Zootaxa 4093(1): 143–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.10 Reference page.
- Dehling, J.M., Hinkel, H.H., Ensikat, H-J., Babilon, K. & 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.2 Reference page.
- Wallach, V. & Gemel, R. 2018. Typhlops weidholzi n. inedit., a new species of Letheobia from the republic of Cameroon, and a synopsis of the genus (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae). Herpetozoa 31(1/2): 27–46. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
- Trape, J.-F. 2019. Scolecophidiens (Squamata : Ophidia) nouveaux d’Afrique centrale (In French). Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France 169: 27–44. Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Letheobia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 January 2019.