Letheobia weidholzi (WALLACH & GEMEL, 2018)
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Letheobia weidholzi
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| Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Weidholz’s Pink Blindsnake |
| Synonym | Typhlops weidholzi WEIDHOLZ 1941 (nom. nud.) Letheobia weidholzi WALLACH & GEMEL 2018 Letheobia logonensis TRAPE 2019 Letheobia weildholzi — TRAPE et al. 2020 (in error) Letheobia logonensis — TRAPE 2023: 784 |
| Distribution | Cameroon (Faro), Nigeria, Chad Type locality: Poli, Département de Faro, région du Nord, Cameroun (8° 27’ 16.4” N, 13° 15’ 33.7” e, elevation 525 m), logonensis: Chad; Type locality: “Baïbokoum (07°44’N / 15°40’E) au Tchad” |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: NMW 23492, collected by Alfred Weidholz, between 1938–1939. Holotype: MNHN-RA 2018.0015, formerly IRD 2285.N, collected 29 May 2015 by a famer of a local village who gave it to the author [logonensis] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Letheobia weidholzi can be separated from all other members of the genus by the following combination of characters: dorsal and lateral head profiles tapered or pointed with keratinous keel on rostral, lateral head shields obliquely oriented to the vertical, and more than 650 total middorsals. Additional characters distinguishing it from other Letheobia with pointed snouts are: inferior nasal suture in contact with sl 2, length/width ratio greater than 95, and absence of an apical spine. As to the assignment to the genus Letheobia, see Discussion (Wallach & Gemel 2018). Additional details (7488 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Otto Wettstein, curator at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, left a hand-written description of this species around 1940 but never formally published it. Weidholz 1941 mentioned the name in a book, also without details, hence creating a nomen nudum. Trape et al. 2020 synonymized Letheobia logonensis with L. weidholzi. Distribution: Apparently only known from 3 specimens in 3 countries (Trape et al. 2020). Habitat: grassland with scrub trees around 500 m elevation. it is found within the humid Sudan-Guinea savanna biome or the tropical Wet-Dry savanna (Aw) climate of Köppern (1884). |
| Etymology | Named after Alfred Weidholz, a Viennese private banker, who collected the type on one of several trips to Africa. Letheobia logonensis was named after the Logone River which is close to the type locality. |
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