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Tricheilostoma dissimilis (BOCAGE, 1886)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sudan Blind Snake 
SynonymStenostoma dissimile BOCAGE 1886: 174
Glauconia dissimilis — BOULENGER 1890
Glauconia dissimilis — BOULENGER 1893: 70
Leptotyphlops dissimile — FLOWER 1933: 803
Leptotyphlops dissimilis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 28
Leptotyphlops dissimilis — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 49
Myriopholis dissimilis — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Tricheilostoma dissimilis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 737 
DistributionSE Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS)

Type locality: White Nile [= White Nile, An Nil Al Abyad Province, SE Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS)].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MB (Museu Bocage), destroyed (according to HAHN 1980) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from all other African Leptotyphlops by having three supralabials, the second excluding the ocular from the upper lip, but based on a single specimen in poor condition (Bocage, 1897); otherwise the ocular is excluded from the lip only in the five species of the Leptotyphlops bilineatus species group in the West Indies (Thomas et al., 1985). Subcaudals 30; total length/diameter ratio 42; total length/tail length ratio 11.5. 
CommentKnown only from the holotype. 
References
  • Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, S.; Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50 - get paper here
  • Bocage, J.V.B. du 1886. Typhlopiens nouveaux de la Faune africaine. Jorn. Sci. math. phys. nat., Lisboa, 11:171-174 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1890. Description of a new Snake of the Genus Glauconia Gray, obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha on the Victoria Nyanza. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6: 91-93. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Flower,Stanley 1933. Notes on the recent reptiles and amphibians of Egypt, with a list of the species recorded from that kingdom. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1933: 735-851 - get paper here
  • Hahn D. E. & V. WALLACH, 1998. Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 23: 50-62 - 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
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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