Rhinotyphlops scorteccii

Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, commonly known as Scortecci's blind snake,[1] is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Somalia.[1]

Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Rhinotyphlops
Species:
R. scorteccii
Binomial name
Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
(Gans & Laurent, 1965)
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops scorteccii
    Gans & Laurent, 1965
  • Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
    — Roux-Estève, 1974
  • Letheobia scortecci [sic]
    — Broadley & Wallach, 2007

Etymology

The specific name, scorteccii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Giuseppe Scortecci (1898-1973).[4][5]

Reproduction

R. scorteccii is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Species Rhinotyphlops scortecci at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
  3. "Rhinotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. "Giuseppe Scortecci". Wikispecies.
  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. (Letheobia scorteccii, Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, p. 240).

Further reading
  • Broadley, 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 scortecci [sic]", new combination).
  • Gans C, Laurent RF, Pandit H (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1–93. (Typhlops scorteccii, new species, p. 56).
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. ("Rhinotyphlops scortecci [sic]", p. 31).



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