Leptotyphlops longicaudus

Leptotyphlops longicaudus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Leptotyphlops
Species:	L. longicaudus
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops longicaudus (Peters, 1854)
Synonyms
Stenosoma longicaudum Peters, 1854 Glauconia longicauda - Boulenger, 1890 Leptotyphlops longicauda - Loveridge, 1953 Leptotyphlops longicaudus - Auerbach, 1987 Myriopholis longicauda - Adalsteinsson et al., 2009[1]

Leptotyphlops longicaudus, or the long-tailed thread snake, is a species of snake in the Leptotyphlopidae family.^[2][3] It is endemic to Africa.

Geographic range

It is found in eastern Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, southern Somalia, northeastern South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.^[4][5]

References

1. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. 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).
3. "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
4. Branch, Bill. 2004. Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Ralph Curtis Books. Sanibel Island, Florida. 399 pp., including 112 Plates. (Leptotyphlops longicaudus, p. 56 & Plate 40.
5. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Peters, W. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Volume 1854, pp. 614-628. (Stenosoma longicaudum, p. 621.)