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Rhinotyphlops schinzi (BOETTGER, 1887)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: (Schinz's) Beaked Blind Snake 
SynonymTyphlops (Onychocephalus) schinzi BOETTGER 1887: 154
Typhlops schinzi — BOULENGER 1893: 47
Typhlops schinzi — FITZSIMONS & BRAIN 1958
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — ROUX-ESTÈVE 1974: 186
Typhlops schinzi — AUERBACH 1987: 147
Typhlops schinzi — BAUER et al. 1993
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 83
Rhinotypholops [sic] schinzi — MATTISON 2007: 198
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — HEDGES et al. 2014
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 654
Rhinotyphlops schinzi — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionNamibia, W Botswana, Republic of South Africa (south to Calvinia in the Cape).T Type locality: Noi Xas, Ghansi District, western Kalahari, South West Africa.

Type locality: “Noi Xas unweit Ghanze in der Nord-Kalayari, Südweat-Afrikas” [= between Aus and Keetmanshoop, Great Namaqualand, Noixas, Ghansi District, W. Kalahari, Botswana] (type locality restriction by Mertens, 1971: 75) (21.567°S, 21.783°E, elevation 1155 m).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 16665 (formerly SMF 7047, 1A), collected by H. Schinz, 1884–1885; Mertens, 1922: 178, 1967. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777-1861), Swiss physician and zoologist. See Kabisch 2003 for biographical notes. 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - 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
  • Boettger, O. 1887. Zweiter Beitrag zur Herpetologie Südwest- und Südafrikas. Ber. senckenb. naturf. Ges., Frankfurt am Main, 1887:135-173 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. & Blaylock 2013. The Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 387 pp. [book review in Sauria 35 (2): 59 and Copeia 2014: 388] - 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
  • Fitzsimons, V. 1966. A check-list, with syntopic keys, to the snakes of southern Africa. Annals Transvaal Museum 25 (3): 35-79 - get paper here
  • Fitzsimons, V.F.M.; Brain, C.K. 1958. A Short account of the Reptiles of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Koedoe, 1(1): 99-104 - 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
  • Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
  • Kabisch, K. 2003. Zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten. Vor 170 Jahren erschien in Leipzig die "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien" von Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. Die Aquarien- und Terrarienzeitschrift 56 (11): 20-21
  • Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Roux-Estève, R. 1974. Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Reptilia. Serpentes. Mém. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, (sér.A.) 87: 1-313
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2015. Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific  Society, 276 pp.
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp.
 
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