Afrotyphlops liberiensis (HALLOWELL, 1848)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Guinea Blind Snake
Synonym	Onychocephalus 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
Distribution	Guinea (Conakry), Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia Type locality: “Liberia, western coast of Africa”
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: ANSP 3243 Holotype: ZMH R04484 [Typhlops liberiensis var. intermedia]
Diagnosis
Comment	Habitat: 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.
Etymology	Named 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, 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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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