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Leptotyphlops pitmani BROADLEY & WALLACH, 2007

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopinae, Leptotyphlopini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pitman’s Thread Snake 
SynonymLeptotyphlops scutifrons pitmani BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007: 45
Glauconia emini — STERNFELD, 1912: 264
Leptotyphlops conjuncta — LOVERIDGE, 1933: 224
Leptotyphlops conjuncta conjuncta — LOVERIDGE, 1957: 246 (part)
Leptotyphlops conjuncta conjuncta — PITMAN 1974: 66
Leptotyphlops conjunctus conjunctus — LAURENT 1956: 82
Leptotyphlops emini emini — SPAWLS 1978: 3 (part)
Leptotyphlops conjunctus — MCDIARMID et al. 1999: 25 (part)
Leptotyphlops scutifrons — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 299 (part)
Leptotyphlops scutifrons pitmani BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007
Leptotyphlops pitmani — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 372 
DistributionUganda

Type locality: Bisu [= Biso], W Budongo Forest, Bunyoro, Uganda (01°44’N, 31°26’E, 1600 m).  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1935.10.11.4; Collected by C.R.S. Pitman, July 1935. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A subspecies of Leptotyphlops scutifrons distinguished from the typical form by its narrower wedge-shaped rostral (unguiform in typical L. scutifrons) and from the intervening subspecies L. scutifrons merkeri by having 10 scale rows on the tail. (Broadley & Wallach 2007) 
CommentSynonymy: Listed as synonym of L. scutifrons by WALLACH et al. 2014. However, Leptotyphlops pitmani was not closely related to L. scutifrons in the phylogenetic analysis of Adalsetinsson et al. 2009.

Habitat. Savanna. 
EtymologyNamed for Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman (1890–1975), author of ‘A Guide to the Snakes of Uganda’, whose efforts contributed greatly to the accumulation of Ugandan material in the museums in London, Liverpool, Bulawayo and Kampala. 
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