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Myriopholis cairi (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1844)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopinae, Myriopholini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cairo Blind Snake 
SynonymStenostoma cairi DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 323
Glauconia fitzingeri JAN 1861: 189
Stenostoma Fitzingeri JAN 1861
Glauconia cairi — BOULENGER 1890
Glauconia cairi — BOULENGER 1893: 65
Glauconia fitzingeri — BOULENGER 1893: 66
Glauconia cairi — STEINDACHNER 1901
Glauconia cairi — ANDERSSON 1916: 23
Leptotyphlops cairi — PARKER 1932: 362
Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus bilmaensis ANGEL 1936
Leptotyphlops cairi — GANS et al. 1965
Leptotyphlops cairi — HAHN & WALLACH 1998
Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus bilmaensis — HAHN 1980: 20
Leptotyphlops fitzingeri — HAHN 1980: 14
Leptotyphlops cairi — LARGEN & RASMUSSEN 1993
Leptotyphlops cairi — HAHN & WALLACH 1998: 56
Leptotyphlops cairi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 25
Leptotyphlops cairi — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 24
Leptotyphlops cairi — GRUBER 2009
Myriopholis cairi — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Myriopholis cairi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 463 
DistributionEgypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Somalia, Niger, Mauritania

bilmaensis: Niger

Type locality: Le Caire, Egypte.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 3231 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Snout rounded in lateral view, but with a weak preoral concavity on the rostral; interparietal occasionally longitudinally divided; occipitals usually not fused. Middorsals 322–30; subcaudals 28–35; total length/diameter ratio 59–11; total length/tail length ratio 12.3–16.2. Skull with a large frontoparietal foramen. (Broadley & Wallach 2007)


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CommentDistribution: Not listed in SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996. Not verified records from Libya fide Bauer et al. 2017. Not in East Africa (i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi fide S. Spawls, pers. comm., 28 June 2018). For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013.

Synonymy: partly after Trape 2002. Glauconia braccianii SCORTECCI 1929, a former synonym of L. cairi, has been elevated to full species status.

Habitat. This species inhabits moist cultivated areas, being replaced by Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus in adjacent sandy desert areas, and is found in close proximity to L. macrorhynchus in the lower Nile Valley near Cairo, Egypt (Baha el Din, 2006). 
EtymologyNamed after the city of Cairo. 
References
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  • Abdeen, A.M., Abo-Taira, A.M. & Zaher, M.M. 1991. Further studies on the Ophidian cranial osteology: the skull of the Egyptian Blind Snake Leptotyphlops cairi (family Leptotyphlopidae). II. The lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus. Journal of the Egyptian-German Society of Zoology (Giza), 5(5), 457–467
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