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Afrotyphlops obtusus (PETERS, 1865)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern gracile blind-snake, Slender Blind Snake 
SynonymTyphlops (Onychocephalus) obtusus PETERS 1865: 260
Typhlops obtusus — BOULENGER 1893: 38
Typhlops tettensis obtusus — LOVERIDGE 1953: 243
Typhlops obtusus LAURENT 1964
Typhlops obtusus obtusus — LAURENT 1968
Typhlops obtusus palgravei LAURENT 1968
Typhlops obtusus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 112
Letheobia obtusa — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 32
Letheobia obtusa — PYRON & BURBRINK 2013
Letheobia obtusa — BROADLEY & BLAYLOCK 2013
Afrotyphlops obtusus — HEDGES et al. 2014
Letheobia obtusa — WALLACH et al. 2014: 381
Afrotyphlops obtusus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Afrotyphlops obtusus — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Letheobia obtusa — SZYNDLAR & GEORGALIS 2023 
DistributionS Malawi, N Mozambique, NE Zimbabwe

Type locality: “Thale des Shireflusses (Mocambique)”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.11.31-32 (formerly BMNH 64.10.29.15-16)
Holotype: UM 12764 (Umtali Museum) [palgravei] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (603 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat. Coastal forest and miombo woodland. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. & Blaylock 2013. The Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 387 pp. [book review in Sauria 35 (2): 59 and Copeia 2014: 388] - get paper here
  • Broadley, Donald G. & Wallach, V. 2007. A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope, revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa 1515: 31–68 - get paper here
  • Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61 - get paper here
  • Laurent, R.F. 1964. A Revision of the punctatus Group of African Typhlops. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (6): 387-444 - get paper here
  • Laurent, R.F. 1968. On some Typhlops from south-eastern Africa. Arnoldia, Bulawayo, 3 (31): 1-2
  • Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1865. [Hr. W. Peters lieferte einen ferneren Nachtrag zu seiner Abhandlung über Typhlopina]. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1865 (Juni): 259-263 - get paper here
  • Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
  • Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here
  • Szyndlar Z, Georgalis GL 2023. An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 717-886 - get paper here
 
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