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Angolan giant blind snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Afrotyphlops
Species:	A. anomalus
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops anomalus (Bocage, 1873)
Synonyms
Onychocephalus anomalus Bocage, 1873 Typhlops anchietae Bocage, 1886 Typhlops anomalus – Boulenger, 1893 Rhinotyphlops anomalus – Roux-Estève, 1974 Megatyphlops anomalus – Broadley & Wallach, 2009

The Angolan giant blind snake or Angolan giant blind-snake (Afrotyphlops anomalus), also known as the anomalous beaked snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. It is endemic to Angola. Its classification was changed from Rhinotyphlops to Megatyphlops when Rhinotyphlops was found to be polyphyletic. In 2014 Megatyphlops was changed to Afrotyphlops.

Geographic range

It is found in southwestern Angola.

References

1. ^ Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Baptista, N.; Conradie, W. (2020). "Afrotyphlops anomalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22472487A22472509. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22472487A22472509.en. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
2. ^ Afrotyphlops anomalus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 September 2020.
3. Pyron, Robert Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T. & Wiens, John J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 93–145. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...93P. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
4. Hedges, Stephen Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie & Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)" (PDF). Caribbean Herpetology. 49: 1–61.

Further reading

• Bocage, J.V.B. 1873. Reptiles nouveaux de l'intérieur de Mossamedes. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes. Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Volume 4, Number XV., pp. 247–253.
• Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2255: 1–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2255.1.1.

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• Afrotyphlops
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• Endemic fauna of Angola
• Reptiles described in 1873
• Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
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