Sundevall's worm snake (Tricheilostoma sundewalli) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Central Africa and West Africa.
| Sundevall's worm snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Genus: | Tricheilostoma |
| Species: | T. sundewalli
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| Binomial name | |
| Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1861)
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Etymology edit
The epithet, sundewalli, is in honor of Carl Jakob Sundevall, a Swedish zoologist.[4]
Geographic range edit
T. sundewalli is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "Tricheilostoma sundewalli ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ 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 sundewalli, p. 258).
Further reading edit
- Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zotaxa 2244: 1-50. (Guinea sundewalli, new combination).
- Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. ("Glauconia sundevallii [sic]", p. 68).
- Jan G (1862). "Note sulla famiglia dei Tiflopidi sui loro generi e sulle specie del genere Stenostoma". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 1: 178-199. (Stenostoma sundewalli, new species, p. 191). (in Italian).
- Hedges SB (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Tricheilostoma sundewalli, new combination).