Typhlops lehneri

Typhlops lehneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. lehneri
Binomial name
Typhlops lehneri
Roux, 1926
Synonyms
  • Typhlops lehneri
    Roux, 1926
  • Amerotyphlops lehneri
    Hedges et al., 2014[1]

Typhlops lehneri is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, lehneri, is in honor of geologist Ernst Lehner.[4]

Geographic range

T. lehneri is endemic to Venezuela. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Amerotyphlops lehneri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (Typhlops lehneri, p. 107).
  4. Beolens, Bo, Michael Watson, and Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops lehneri, p. 154).

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