Letheobia uluguruensis (BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE, 1928)
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Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Uluguru gracile blind-snake, Uluguri Worm Snake |
Synonym | Typhlops uluguruensis BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 104 Typhlops uluguruensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 123 Typhlops uluguruensis — SPAWLS et al. 2001 Letheobia uluguruensis — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007 Letheobia uluguruensis — HEDGES et al. 2014 Letheobia uluguruensis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 360 Letheobia uluguruensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 382 |
Distribution | Tanzania (Uluguru Mountains), elevation 760–850 m Type locality: “Nyange, 850 m, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania” (06°52’S, 37°46’E) |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 23080. |
Diagnosis | Description: Snout rounded, prominent. Rostral moderate, oval; frontal subhexagonal; supraocular transverse, its lateral apex between preocular and ocular; eye not visible; ocular separated from subocular by two or three postoculars; nasal suture arising from second labial; SIP X (N1, P, S, PO) and SIP II–P (N1, N2, S, S); MSR 22, reduction A–B 2, reduction B–C O; MD 379–416; vertebrae 263–269; MD/V ratio 1.41–1.8; L/D ratio 2–7. Colourless. For abbreviations see L. caeca. From BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007. |
Comment | Has 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). |
Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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