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Afrotyphlops liberiensis (HALLOWELL, 1848)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guinea Blind Snake 
SynonymOnychocephalus liberiensis HALLOWELL 1848: 59
Typhlops liberiensis — JAN 1864
Typhlops liberiensis var. intermedia JAN, in JAN & SORDELLI 1864 (1860-1866)
Onychocephalus liberiensis — BOCAGE 1866: 46
Typhlops punctatus liberiensis — LAURENT 1964
Typhlops punctatus liberiensis — BAUER et al. 2002
Afrotyphlops liberiensis — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009
Typhlops liberiensis — BÖHME et al. 2011
Afrotyphlops liberiensis — HEDGES et al. 2014
Afrotyphlops liberiensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 15
Afrotyphlops liberiensis — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 
DistributionGuinea (Conakry), Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia

Type locality: “Liberia, western coast of Africa”  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 3243
Holotype: ZMH R04484 [Typhlops liberiensis var. intermedia] 
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CommentHabitat: Morphological differentiation between congestus, liberiensis and punctatus is minor but they inhabit different habitats: savannah (punctatus), forest (congestus and liberiensis) according to BRANCH & RÖDEL 2003. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M., Wallach, V., and Günther, R. 2002. An annotated type catalogue of the scolecophidian, alethinophidian, and macrostomatan snakes in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB). Mitt. Mus. Naturkunde Berlin 78:157-176. - get paper here
  • Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - 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
  • 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
  • Hallowell,E. 1848. Description of two new species of Onychocephalus, from the western coast of Africa. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1848: 59-61 - 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
  • Laurent, R.F. 1964. A Revision of the punctatus Group of African Typhlops. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (6): 387-444 - get paper here
  • Senter, P. J., & Chippaux, J. P. 2022. Biogeography of snakes in Liberia: Review and synthesis of current knowledge. Ghana Journal of Science, 63(1), 29-62 - get paper here
  • Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp.
  • TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & CELLOU BALDÉ 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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