Letheobia wrayi MALONZA, 2024

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Wray’s Gracile Blindsnake
Synonym	Letheobia wrayi MALONZA 2024
Distribution	SE Kenya (Taita Hills) Type locality: Lata Dam, Sagalla Hill, Taita Hills in Taita-Taveta County, south-eastern Kenya (3.4995° S; 38.5736°E, 1064 m elevation)
Reproduction
Types	Holotype. NMK-S4189, collected on 19 December 2008 by Peter Mwasi and Peter Alama (Figure 1).
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Joseph Wray, a missionary of the Church Society of England (Church of England) who arrived on Sagalla Hill in 1883 and built one of the first churches in Kenya.
References	Malonza, P. K. 2024. A new species of gracile blind snake in the genus Letheobia (Squamata: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) from Sagalla Hill, south-eastern Kenya. African Journal of Herpetology, 1-8 - get paper here
External links	Google images

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