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Tanga blind snake

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Tanga blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:
A. platyrhynchus
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus
Sternfeld, 1910
Synonyms
  • Typhlops platyrhynchus
  • Madatyphlops platyrhynchus

The Tanga worm snake (Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.[1][2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  2. ^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1
  3. ^ Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.