Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus (BROADLEY & WALLACH, 2000)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Bicoloured blind skink
Synonym	Rhinotyphlops nigrocandidus BROADLEY & WALLACH 2000 Typhlops punctatus gierrai BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928 (not MOCQUARD) (part.) Typhlops gierrai — ROUX-ESTÈVE 1974: 133 (not MOCQUARD) (part.) Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009 Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 350 Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 16
Distribution	EC Tanzania Type locality: "Kiranzi-Kitungulu Forest Reserve, Udzungwa Mountains, Iringa District, Tanzania (1500 m elevation)"
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMUC (Zool. Museum, Univ. Copenhagen)
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Comment	Related to Rhinotyphlops gierrai Mocquard. Synonymy after BROADLEY & WALLACH 2000.
Etymology	Named after “niger” (Latin = shining black) + “candidus” (Latin = shining white) referring to the characteristic black and white colouration of this form.
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 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 Lyakurwa, J.V., Howell, K.M., Munishi, L.K., Treydte, A.C. 2019. Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve; a unique hotspot for reptiles in Tanzania. Acta Herpetologica 14 (1): 3-14 - get paper here Lyakurwa, John Valentine 2017. The Reptiles of the Uzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve (USFR): An Updated Checklist with Notes on Dagger-Tooth Vine Snake Xyelodontophis uluguruensis. Journal of East African Natural History 106(2):57-65. - 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 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 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 Google images

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