Letheobia angeli (GUIBÉ, 1952)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mann's Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops angeli GUIBÉ 1952: 79 Afrotyphlops angeli — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Letheobia angeli — HEDGES et al. 2014 Afrotyphlops angeli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 13 Letheobia angeli — WALLACH & GEMEL 2018 Afrotyphlops angeli — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019 Afrotyphlops angeli — SZYNDLAR & GEORGALIS 2023 Afrotyphlops angeli — TRAPE 2023: 748
Distribution	Guinea (Conakry) Type locality: “Nzo, Mont-Nimba,500 m, French Guinea” (GUIBÉ 1952)
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 1951.0001
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Comment	Synonymy: previous authors (e.g. Roux-Estève 1974, Ineich 2003, Böhme et al. 2011) treat L. angeli as synonym of Typhlops manni.
Etymology	Named after F. Angel, French herpetologist.
References	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 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 Guibé, J. 1952. Typhlops Angeli (Serpent), New Species from Mount Nimba. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, (2) 24 (1): 79 - get paper here Loveridge, Arthur 1941. Report on the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition's collection of reptiles and amphibians from Liberia. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 91 (3128): 113-140 - 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. 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 Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. Wallach, V. & Gemel, R. 2018. Typhlops weidholzi n. inedit., a new species of Letheobia from the republic of Cameroon, and a synopsis of the genus (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae). Herpetozoa 31 (1/2): 27 - 46 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/445376541020283/ Google images

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