Letheobia wrayi MALONZA, 2024
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Letheobia wrayi
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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: 3 |
| 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 | Diagnosis: Assignable to the genus Letheobia on the basis of the following combination of characters: Supralabial imbrication pattern (SIP), T-0, no supralabial overlaps the scale or shield posterodorsally to it; laterally rounded snout, gracile or worm-like body form. The new species is a member of the Letheobia pallida Cope, 1869 group (L. pallida Cope, 1869, L. swahilica Broadley and Wallach, 2007, L. toritensis Broadley and Wallach, 2007 and L. mbeerensis Malonza, Bauer and Ngwava, 2016) by possessing a rounded and prominent snout; rostral very broad as long, rounded posteriorly; frontal crescentic; supraocular transverse, with its lateral apex between nasal and ocular, the latter separated from the lip by a large subocular; no eye visible; nasal suture arising from the base of the first supralabial; type T-0 of supralabial imbrication pattern (SIP); it is a moderate-sized species (200–450 mm), of moderate thickness (body length to mid-body diameter 40–70), with a short tail (< 2.0%, tail length to body length), midbody scale rows 20-20-20; middorsals 355; body length to mid-body diameter ratio 67. Light brown to colourless. (Malonza 2024) Additional details (1969 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Only known from the holotype, a preserved specimen. No live photos apparently available. |
| 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. |
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