Letheobia leucosticta (BOULENGER, 1898)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Liberia Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops leucostictus BOULENGER 1898: 124 Typhlops leucostictus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 107 Letheobia leucostictus — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007 Letheobia leucostictus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Letheobia leucosticta — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Letheobia leucosticta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 380 Letheobia leucosticta — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 Afrotyphlops leucostictus — TRAPE 2023: 742
Distribution	Liberia, Guinea (Conakry) Type locality: “Liberia”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.11.24.
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (907 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: not in Sierra Leone fide TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014: 320 Abundance: Rare. This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after the Greek words leuco (λευκο) = white, and Greek stiktos (στικτός), punctured, spotted.
References	Aylmer, G. 1922. The Snakes of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Studies 5: 7-37 Boulenger, G.A. 1898. Descriptions of two new blind snakes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 1: 124. - 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 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 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 Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - 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 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, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. 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 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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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