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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, Südwest-Afrika” [= 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. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
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
  • Lobón-Rovira, J., Sierra, P., Portas, R., Pinto, P. V., & Martínez-Freiría, F. 2025. Noteworthy herpetological notes from Namibe Province, Angola. Herpetology Notes 18: 99-105
  • 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.
  • Parrinha, D., Marques, M. P., Bauer, A. M., & Ceríaco, L. M. 2026. An Updated Checklist and Atlas of the Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 91(4), 319-397 - get paper here
  • 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. - get paper here
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp. - get paper here
  • Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria - get paper here
 
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