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Rhinotyphlops boylei

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Species of snake

Rhinotyphlops boylei
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Rhinotyphlops
Species: R. boylei
Binomial name
Rhinotyphlops boylei
(FitzSimons, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops boylei
    FitzSimons, 1932
  • Rhinotyphlops boylei
    — Wallach, 1994

Rhinotyphlops boylei, commonly known as Boyle's beaked blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to southern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, boylei, is in honor of "A. M. Boyle, Esq.", who collected the holotype.

Geographic range

Indigenous to southern Africa, R. boylei is found from Damaraland in Namibia to western Botswana.

Description

Dorsally, R. boylei is olive-brown, the scales light-edged. Ventrally, it is pale yellow.

Adults may attain a snout-vent length (SVL) of 22 cm (8+1⁄2 in).

The scales are arranged in 26-28 rows around the body. There are more than 300 dorsal scales in the vertebral row.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. boylei is sandveld, at altitudes of 1,000–1,400 m (3,300–4,600 ft).

Reproduction

R. boylei is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Pietersen, D.; Verburgt, L.; Farooq, H. (2021). "Rhinotyphlops boylei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22473415A22473422. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T22473415A22473422.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Rhinotyphlops boylei at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. p. 53.
  4. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
  5. "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

Further reading

  • Broadley DG, Wallach V (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". Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. (Rhinotyphlops boylei, p. 59).
  • FitzSimons V (1932). "Preliminary descriptions of new forms of South African Reptilia and Amphibia, from the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, 1930". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15 (1): 35–40. (Typhlops boylei, new species).
  • FitzSimons V (1966). "A check-list, with syntopic keys, to the snakes of southern Africa". Ann. Transvaal Mus. 25 (3): 35–79.


Taxon identifiers
Rhinotyphlops boylei


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