Bouet's worm snake

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Bouet's worm snake
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Myriopholis
Species:	M. boueti
Binomial name
*Myriopholis boueti* (Chabanaud, 1917)
Synonyms^[2]
Glauconia boueti Chabanaud, 1917 Glauconia debilis Chabanaud, 1918 Leptotyphlops narirostris boueti — Villiers, 1950 Leptotyphlops debilis — Hahn, 1980 Leptotyphlops boueti — J.-F. Trape & Mané, 2000 Myriopholis boueti — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009

Bouet's worm snake (Myriopholis boueti) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[2] The species is native to West Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, boueti, is in honor of Georges Bouet (1869–1957), who was a French ornithologist and physician.^[3]

Geographic range

M. boueti is found in Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Western Sahara.^[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of M. boueti is savanna.^[1]

Description

The holotype of M. boueti has a total length of 16.6 cm (6.5 in), which includes a tail 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long. The diameter of the body is 0.3 cm (0.12 in).^[4]

Reproduction

M. boueti is oviparous.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Wagner, P.; Chirio, L. (2013). "Myriopholis boueti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T13292136A13292145. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T13292136A13292145.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Myriopholis boueti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
^ 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 boueti, p. 33).
^ Chabanaud P (1917).

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. (Myriopholis boueti, new combination).
Chabanaud P (1917). "Note complémentaire sur les Ophidiens de l'Afrique occidentale, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 23: 7–14. (Glauconia boueti, new species, pp. 9–10, Figures 1–3). (in French).

Taxon identifiers
Myriopholis boueti	Wikidata: Q3019664 Wikispecies: Myriopholis boueti ADW: Leptotyphlops_boueti CoL: 458XN GBIF: 7457332 iNaturalist: 32483 ITIS: 1107536 IUCN: 13292136 NCBI: 711085 Open Tree of Life: 865629 RD: boueti

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