Afrotyphlops gierrai (MOCQUARD, 1897)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Usambara Spotted Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops gierrai MOCQUARD 1897: 122 Typhlops guirrae SCHMIDT 1923: 33 (error typographicus) Typhlops punctatus gierrai — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 106 Typhlops gierrai — LAURENT 1964 Typhlops gierrai — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 103 Rhinotyphlops gierrai — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2000 Typhlops gierrae — SPAWLS et al. 2001 Rhinotyphlops gierrai — MENEGON et al. 2008 Afrotyphlops gierrai — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009 Afrotyphlops gierrai — HEDGES et al. 2014 Afrotyphlops gierrai — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 346 Afrotyphlops gierrai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 15
Distribution	Tanzania (Usambara mountains, Ukaguru Mts., Uluguru Mountains). Type locality: “Tanga, Tanzania”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 1897.0024
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (833 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after A. Gierra, collector of the holotype. Gierra was an expert on north and east African languages. He collected reptiles from Tanga (today’s Tanzania) for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
References	Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265 - 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 Broadley, D.G. & Van Wallach 2000. A new blind snake (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from montane forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology 49 (2): 165-168 - 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 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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Menegon, Michele; Nike Doggart, Nisha Owen 2008. The Nguru mountains of Tanzania, an outstanding hotspot of herpetofaunal diversity. Acta Herpetologica 3 (2): 107-127 Mocquard, M.F. 1897. Note sur quelques Reptiles de Tanga, don de M. Gierra. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, 3 (4): 122-123 - get paper here Rasmussen,J.B. 1981. The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188 - get paper here Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - get paper here Schmidt, K. P. 1923. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146 - get paper here Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/380035910887680/ Google images

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