Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Namibiana
Species: Namibiana rostrata
Name
- Namibiana rostrata (Bocage, 1886)
Holotype: MB , collected by J.A. d’Anchieta between 1861–1866. [destroyed by fire 18 March 1978]
Type locality: “Humbe, sur les bords du Cunene”
Combinations
- Stenostoma rostratum Bocage, 1886: 173 [original combination]
- Glauconia rostrata — Boulenger, 1890: 92 [subsequent combination]
- Leptotyphlops rostratus — Hahn, 1980 [subsequent combination]
- Namibiana rostrata — Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges, 2009: 13 [subsequent combination]
References
Primary references
- Bocage, J.V.B. du 1886. Typhlopiens nouveaux de la Faune africaine. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 11: 171–174.
- Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1–50. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Additional references
- Broadley, D.G. & Broadley, S. 1999. A review of the African worm snakes from south of latitude 12°S (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Syntarsus 5: 1–36. Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Namibiana rostrata. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 October 2018.