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Afrotyphlops steinhausi (WERNER, 1909)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Steinhaus' Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops steinhausi WERNER 1909: 209
Typhlops batesii BOULENGER 1911: 370
Typhlops intermedius — SCHMIDT 1923: 47 (part. ? fide BROADLEY)
Typhlops steinhausi — LAURENT 1964
Typhlops steinhousi ROUX-ESTÈVE 1965 (error typographicus)
Typhlops steinhausi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 120
Rhinotyphlops steinhausi — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Afrotyphlops steinhausi — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009
Afrotyphlops steinhausi — HEDGES et al. 2014
Afrotyphlops steinhausi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 17 
DistributionS Nigeria, S Cameroon, SE Central African Republic, N Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville)

Type locality: “Kamerun” [Cameroon].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: MNHN-RA 1964.0139, according to Hahn (1980:72)
Syntypes (2): Originally in ZMH (destroyed during World War II, according to Hahn, 1980, Das Tierreich 101:1-93[72]).
Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.23.48-50 [batesii] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (652 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Carl Otto Steinhaus (1870-1919), an expert on marine worms, who was an assistant at Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg (1887), where the holotype resided when Werner described it and where Steinhaus was fully employed from 1900. 
References
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  • Boulenger, G.A. 1911. Descriptions of three new snakes discovered by Mr. G.L. Bates in South Cameroon. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 8: 370-371 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
  • Broadley, Donald G. & 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 - get paper here
  • Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157.
  • Chippaux, Jean-Philippe & Kate Jackson 2019. Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Johns Hopkins University Press, 448 pp. [detaileld review in HR 51 (1): 161] - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - 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
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