Gabon beaked snake

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Gabon beaked snake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. caeca
Binomial name
*Letheobia caeca* (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)
Synonyms^[3]
Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856 Typhlops cæcus – Jan, 1864 Letheobia cæca – Cope, 1868^[1] Typhlops acutirostratus Andersson, 1916 Typhlops avakubae – Schmidt, 1923 Typhlops caecus – de Witte, 1961 Rhinotyphlops caecus – Roux-Estève, 1974; McDiarmid et al., 1999^[2] Letheobia acutirostratus – Wallach, 2005 Letheobia caecus – Broadley & Wallach, 2007

The Gabon beaked snake (Letheobia caeca) is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae. It is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is known from Gabon (its type locality), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ghana. However, the identity of different populations is not fully clear.^[3]

References

^ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ... Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. p. 55.
^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^ ^a ^b Letheobia caeca at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 December 2018.

Duméril, A.H.A. 1856. Note sur les reptiles du Gabon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Apliquée, Paris, Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 369–377, 417–424, 460–470, 553–562. (Onychocephalus cæcus, p. 462)
Broadley, Donald G.; Wallach, Van (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 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Zootaxa (1515): 31–68. Abstract

Taxon identifiers
Letheobia caeca	Wikidata: Q3008551 Wikispecies: Letheobia caeca CoL: 6Q2LC GBIF: 2471137 iNaturalist: 32717 IRMNG: 10641796 ITIS: 1116063 IUCN: 13300802 Observation.org: 100692 Open Tree of Life: 4119962 RD: caeca

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