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St. Thomas beaked snake

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St. Thomas beaked snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. feae
Binomial name
Letheobia feae
(Boulenger, 1906)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops feae
    Boulenger, 1906
  • Typhlops principis
    Boulenger, 1906
  • Rhinotyphlops feae
    Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia feae
    Broadley & Wallach, 2007

The St. Thomas beaked snake (Letheobia feae) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is native to the Gulf of Guinea off the western coast of Central Africa.

Etymology

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The specific name, feae, is in honor of Leonardo Fea, who was an Italian explorer and naturalist.[2][5]

Geographic range

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L. feae is found on the island of São Tomé in the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.[2]

Habitat

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The preferred natural habitat of L. feae is forest, at altitudes of 200–300 m (660–980 ft), but it has also been found in agricultural areas.[1]

Behavior

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L. feae is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

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L. feae is oviparous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Ceríaco LMP (2021). "Letheobia feae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178358A126509965. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178358/126509965. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Letheobia feae. The Reptile Database.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ^ 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. (Rhinotyphlops feae, p. 88).

Further reading

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  • Boulenger GA (1906). "Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Third Series 2: 196–216. (Typhlops feae, new species, p. 209, Figure 5; Typhlops principis, new species, pp. 209–210, Figure 6).
  • 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 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Zootaxa 1515: 31–68. (Letheobia feae, new combination).
  • Chippaux J-P, Jackson K (2019). Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 448 pp. ISBN 978-1421427195.
  • Roux-Estève R (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique, Reptilia-Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Nouvelle Serie - Serie A, Zoologie 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops feae, new combination, p. 202). (in French).