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Drewes's worm snake
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Epacrophis
Species: E. drewesi
Binomial name
Epacrophis drewesi
Wallach, 1996
Synonyms
  • Leptotyphlops drewesi
    Wallach, 1996
  • Epacrophis drewesi
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009

Drewes's worm snake (Epacrophis drewesi) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to East Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, drewesi, is in honor of American herpetologist Robert Clifton Drewes.

Geographic range

E. drewesi is endemic to Kenya.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of E. drewesi is shrubland, at an altitude of 1,300 m (4,300 ft).

Behavior

E. drewesi is nocturnal and fossorial.

Reproduction

E. drewesi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Spawls S, Malonza P (2022). "Epacrophis drewsi (amended version of 2014 assessment)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T21584199A21584205. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T21584199A21584205.en. Downloaded on 28 July 2018.
  2. ^ Species Epacrophis drewesi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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. "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. 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. (Leptotyphlops drewesi, p. 75).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Epacrophis drewesi, new combination).
  • Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Epacrophis drewesi, p. 365).
  • Wallach V (1996). "Leptotyphlops drewesi n. sp., a worm snake from central Kenya (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)". Journal of African Zoology 110 (6): 425–431. (Leptotyphlops drewesi, new species).


Taxon identifiers
Epacrophis drewesi


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