Afrotyphlops obtusus (PETERS, 1865)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Southern gracile blind-snake, Slender Blind Snake
Synonym	Typhlops (Onychocephalus) obtusus PETERS 1865: 260 Typhlops obtusus — BOULENGER 1893: 38 Typhlops tettensis obtusus — LOVERIDGE 1953: 243 Typhlops obtusus LAURENT 1964 Typhlops obtusus obtusus — LAURENT 1968 Typhlops obtusus palgravei LAURENT 1968 Typhlops obtusus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 112 Letheobia obtusa — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 32 Letheobia obtusa — PYRON & BURBRINK 2013 Letheobia obtusa — BROADLEY & BLAYLOCK 2013 Afrotyphlops obtusus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Letheobia obtusa — WALLACH et al. 2014: 381 Afrotyphlops obtusus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Afrotyphlops obtusus — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 Letheobia obtusa — SZYNDLAR & GEORGALIS 2023
Distribution	S Malawi, N Mozambique, NE Zimbabwe Type locality: “Thale des Shireflusses (Mocambique)”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.11.31-32 (formerly BMNH 64.10.29.15-16) Holotype: UM 12764 (Umtali Museum) [palgravei]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (603 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Habitat. Coastal forest and miombo woodland.
References	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. 2007. A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope, revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa 1515: 31–68 - 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 Laurent, R.F. 1968. On some Typhlops from south-eastern Africa. Arnoldia, Bulawayo, 3 (31): 1-2 Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - 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, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1865. [Hr. W. Peters lieferte einen ferneren Nachtrag zu seiner Abhandlung über Typhlopina]. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1865 (Juni): 259-263 - get paper here Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here Szyndlar Z, Georgalis GL 2023. An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 717-886 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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