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Letheobia uluguruensis (BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE, 1928)

IUCN Red List - Letheobia uluguruensis - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Uluguru gracile blind-snake, Uluguri Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops uluguruensis BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 104
Typhlops uluguruensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 123
Typhlops uluguruensis — SPAWLS et al. 2001
Letheobia uluguruensis — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 58
Letheobia uluguruensis — HEDGES et al. 2014
Letheobia uluguruensis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 360
Letheobia uluguruensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 382 
DistributionTanzania (Uluguru Mountains), elevation 760–850 m

Type locality: “Nyange, 850 m, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania” (06°52’S, 37°46’E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 23080. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (509 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHas been rediscovered only in 2004 (by GOWER et al.), 76 years after its first description.

Habitat: Two of the type series were taken under the rotting grass roof of a collapsed hut at the edge of the rain forest (Barbour & Loveridge 1928). In May 2002, four were dug out of loose soil in mixed, low intensity agriculture at Tegetero Mission (Gower et al. 2004). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
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
  • Broadley, Donald G. & Wallach, V. 2007. A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope, revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa 1515: 31–68 - get paper here
  • Gower, David J.; Simon P. Loader & Mark Wilkinson 2004. Assessing the conservation status of soil-dwelling vertebrates: insights from the rediscovery of Typhlops uluguruensis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 2 (1): 79-82 - 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
  • Huff, T.A. 1984. The husbandry and propagation of the Madagascar ground boa, Acrantophis dumerili in captivity. Acta Zool. Pathol. Antverpiensia 78: 255-270
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • 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
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Wallach, V. & Gemel, R. 2018. Typhlops weidholzi n. inedit., a new species of Letheobia from the republic of Cameroon, and a synopsis of the genus (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae). Herpetozoa 31 (1/2): 27 - 46 - get paper here
 
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