Typhlops gierrai
| Typhlops gierrai | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Typhlops |
| Species: | T. gierrai |
| Binomial name | |
| Typhlops gierrai Mocquard, 1897 | |
| Synonyms | |
Typhlops gierrai is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]
Etymology
The specific name, gierrai, is in honor of Mr. A. Gierra, an expert in the languages of North Africa and East Africa, who collected the type specimen.[4]
Geographic range
T. gierrai is endemic to Tanzania, where it is found in the Ukaguru Mountains, the Ulaguru Mountains, and the Usambara Mountains.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Afrotyphlops gierrai ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops gierrai, p. 100).
Further reading
- Broadley DG, Wallach V. 2009. A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species. Zootaxa 2255: 1-100. (Afrotyphlops gierrai, new combination, p. 38).
- Mocquard F. 1897. "Note sur quelques Reptiles de Tanga, don de M. [= Monsieur]. Gierra ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Pars 3 (4): 122-123. (Typhlops gierrai, new species). (in French).
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