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Letheobia newtoni

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Species of snake

Letheobia newtoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species: L. newtoni
Binomial name
Letheobia newtoni
(Bocage, 1890)
Synonyms

Letheobia newtoni is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.

Etymology

The specific name, newtoni, is in honor of "M. F. Newton", who collected the type specimen on Ilhéu das Rolas in the Gulf of Guinea. "F. Newton" refers to Portuguese botanist Colonel Francesco Newton (1864–1909).

Description

The holotype of L. newtoni is 40 cm (16 in) in total length, which includes a tail 6 mm (0.24 in) long. The body is slender, the diameter not exceeding 8 mm (0.31 in). The scales are in 28 rows around the body. Dorsally and ventrally, it is uniformly yellowish white.

Reproduction

L. newtoni is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Species Letheobia newtoni at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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).
  3. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. Bocage (1890).
  5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhinotyphlops newtonii, p. 189).
  6. Boulenger (1893).

Further reading

  • Bocage, JV Barboza du (1890). "Sur une espèce nouvelle à ajoutter à la faune erpètologique de St. Thomé et Rolas ". Jornal de Sciências, Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes da Academia Real das Sciências de Lisboa, Series 2, 2: 61-62. (Typhlops newtoni, new species). (in French).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Typhlops newtonii, p. 55).
  • Broadley DG, 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". Zootaxa 1515: 31-68. (Letheobia newtoni, new combination).
Taxon identifiers
Letheobia newtoni


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