Afrotyphlops elegans (PETERS, 1868)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Elegant Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) elegans PETERS 1868: 450 Typhlops elegans — BOULENGER 1893: 37 Typhlops elegans — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 101 Typhlops elegans — KORNILIOS et al. 2013 Afrotyphlops elegans — HEDGES et al. 2014 Afrotyphlops elegans — WALLACH et al. 2014: 14 Afrotyphlops elegans — CERÍACO et al. 2023
Distribution	Principe Island (Gulf of Guinea) Type locality: “Principe Island, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ZMB 6066, and 2 specimens in Zoologischer Sammlung, Stettin.Boaedon bedriagae
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Comment
Etymology	The name elegans (Latin) means tasteful, choice, fine, select or elegant and appears to refer to the color pattern or body shape.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Ceríaco LMP, Marques MP, Bauer AM. 2018. Miscellanea Herpetologica Sanctithomae, with a provisional checklist of the terrestrial herpetofauna of São Tomé, Príncipe and Annobon islands. Zootaxa. 4387 (1):91–108 - get paper here Ceríaco, L. M. P., Marques, M. P., de Sousa, A. C. A., Veríssimo, J., Beja, P., & Ferreira, S. 2023. Illustrated keys and a DNA barcode reference library of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles (Amphibia, Reptilia) of São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa). ZooKeys 1168: 41-75 - get paper here Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Bell, R.C., Bauer, A.M. 2022. The Terrestrial Reptiles of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands. In: Ceríaco, L.M.P., de Lima, R.F., Melo, M., Bell, R.C. (eds) Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands. Springer, Cham - get paper here Chippaux, Jean-Philippe & Kate Jackson 2019. Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Johns Hopkins University Press, 448 pp. [detaileld review in HR 51 (1): 161] - 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 Kornilios, P.; S. Giokas, P. Lymberakis, R. Sindaco 2013. Phylogenetic position, origin and biogeography of Palearctic and Socotran blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (1): 35–41 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Peters, W.C.H. 1868. Über eine neue Nagergattung, Chiropodomys penicullatus, sowie über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. M. Ber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868 : 448-461 - get paper here Pollo, César J. 2017. Guide of Amphibians and Reptiles of São Tomé and Príncipe. Smashwords / César J. Pollo, 156 pp. - get paper here Sousa, A. C. A. de; Santos, B. S., Parrinha, D., Barbosa, M. R., Marques, M. P., Passos, P., & Ceríaco, L. M. 2026. Mobilizing bibliographic, natural history collections and citizen science data for addressing biodiversity biases: A case study with the herpetofauna of an endemic rich island nation. Natural History Collections and Museomics, 3, e184711 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.calacademy.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=5108 Google images

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