Letheobia caeca

Letheobia caeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. caecus
Binomial name
Letheobia caeca A.H.A. Duméril, 1856
Synonyms
Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856 Typhlops cæcus - Jan, 1864 Letheobia cæca - Cope, 1868[1] Typhlops acutirostratus - Andersson, 1916 Typhlops avakubae - Schmidt, 1923 Typhlops caecus - Witte, 1961 Rhinotyphlops caecus - Roux-Estève, 1974 Letheobia acutirostratus - Wallach, 2005 Letheobia caecus - Broadley & Wallach, 2007[2]

Letheobia caeca is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family.^[3][4][5] It is endemic to Africa.^[2]

References

1. Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ... Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. p. 55.
2. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Letheobia caeca". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Species 2000.
4. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
5. Pyron, Robert Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T.; Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes" (PDF). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 93–145. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.

Further reading

• Duméril, A.H.A. 1856. Note sur les reptiles du Gabon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Apliquée, Paris, Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 369–377, 417-424, 460-470, 553-562. (Onychocephalus cæcus, p. 462)
• Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (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