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Afrotyphlops gierrai (MOCQUARD, 1897)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Usambara Spotted Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops gierrai MOCQUARD 1897: 122
Typhlops guirrae SCHMIDT 1923: 33 (error typographicus)
Typhlops punctatus gierrai — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 106
Typhlops gierrai — LAURENT 1964
Typhlops gierrai — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 103
Rhinotyphlops gierrai — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2000
Typhlops gierrae — SPAWLS et al. 2001
Rhinotyphlops gierrai — MENEGON et al. 2008
Afrotyphlops gierrai — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009
Afrotyphlops gierrai — HEDGES et al. 2014
Afrotyphlops gierrai — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 346
Afrotyphlops gierrai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 15 
DistributionTanzania (Usambara mountains, Ukaguru Mts., Uluguru Mountains).

Type locality: “Tanga, Tanzania”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1897.0024 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (833 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
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References
  • Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. & Van Wallach 2000. A new blind snake (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from montane forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology 49 (2): 165-168 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Menegon, Michele; Nike Doggart, Nisha Owen 2008. The Nguru mountains of Tanzania, an outstanding hotspot of herpetofaunal diversity. Acta Herpetologica 3 (2): 107-127
  • Mocquard, M.F. 1897. Note sur quelques Reptiles de Tanga, don de M. Gierra. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, 3 (4): 122-123 - get paper here
  • Rasmussen,J.B. 1981. The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188 - get paper here
  • Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, K. P. 1923. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146 - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
 
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