| Higher Taxa | Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopinae, Myriopholini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Bouet’s worm snake |
| Synonym | Glauconia boueti CHABANAUD 1917: 9
Glauconia debilis CHABANAUD 1918: 111
Glauconia natatrix ANDERSSON 1937: 7
Leptotyphlops narirostris boueti — VILLIER 1950: 55
Leptotyphlops debilis — HAHN 1980: 11
Leptotyphlops narirostris boueti — HAHN & WALLACH 1998: 53
Leptotyphlops natatrix — HAHN & WALLACH 1998
Leptotyphlops debilis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 27
Leptotyphlops natatrix — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 38
Myriopholis natatrix — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Leptotyphlops boueti — TRAPE & MANÉ 2000
Myriopholis boueti — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Myriopholis boueti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 463
Myriopholis natatrix — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019
Myriopholis boueti — TRAPE 2023: 810 |
| Distribution | Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat)
Type locality: “Soudan” (= Djenné, Mali)
debilis: Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania ?, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Western Sahara; Type locality: Kousri (= Koussri), Chad
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 1917.0024
Holotype: MNHN RA 1904-180 (= MHNP) [debilis] |
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| Comment | Distribution (debilis): Not listed in TRAPE & MANÉ 2006. Records from Mauritania are questionable (fide PADIAL, pers. comm.). Not in Benin fide ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010. Not listed for Togo by Segniagbeto et al. 2012. Not in Liberia fide Senter & Chippaux 2022.
Synonymy: Glauconia debilis CHABANAUD 1918: 111 has been synonymized with Leptotyphlops narirostris boueti by HAHN & WALLACH 1998. Most previous authors synonymized natatrix with algeriensis, but we follow Trape 2023 as the last “revisor” to list natatrix as synonym of boueti. |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Georges Bouet (1869-1957), a physician and ornithologist who worked in Madagascar (1900-1904) and in French West Africa (1906-1930). |
| References |
- Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, S.; Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50 - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Chabanaud,P. 1917. Note complémentaire sur les Ophidiens de l'Afrique occidentale, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, 23: 7-14 [9] - get paper here
- Chabanaud,P. 1918. Étude complémentaire de deux Agama de l'Afrique occidentale et description de quatre espèces nouvelles de reptiles de la même région. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat. Paris 24: 104-112 - 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
- Chirio, L. 2009. Inventaire des reptiles de la région de la Réserve de Biosphère Transfrontalière du W (Niger/Bénin/Burkina Faso: Afrique de l’Ouest). [Herpetological survey of the W Transfrontier Biosphere Reserve area (Niger/Benin/Burkina Faso: West Africa]. Bull. Soc. Herp. France (132): 13-41 - get paper here
- Ineich, Ivan and Patrick Prudent. 2014. Geographic Distribution: Myriopholis boueti (Bouet's worm snake). Herpetological Review 45 (3): 466 - 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.
- Padial, J. M. 2006. COMMENTED DISTRIBUTIONAL LIST OF THE REPTILES OF MAURITANIA (WEST AFRICA). Graellsia, 62(2): 159-178 - get paper here
- Trape J-F and Mané Y. 2015. The snakes of Niger. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 9(2) [Special Section]: 39–55 (e110) - get paper here
- Trape, J.-F. & Mané, Y. 2006. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale. Savane et désert. [Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger]. IRD Editions, Paris, 226 pp. - get paper here
- TRAPE, Jean-François 2005. Note sur quelques serpents méconnus du Burkina Faso de la collection de Benigno Roman. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 116: 39-49 - get paper here
- Trape, Jean-François; Israël Demba Kodindo, Ali Sougoudi Djiddi, Joseph Mad-Toïngué & Clément Hinzoumbé Kerah 2020. The snakes of Chad: results of a field survey and annotated country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (2): 367–393 - get paper here
- Trape, Jean-François; Mané, Youssouph 2000. Les serpents des environs de Dielmo (Sine-Saloum, Sénégal). Bull. Soc. Herp. France 95: 19-35 - get paper here
- Trape, Jean-François & Youssouph Mané 2017. The snakes of Mali. Bonn zoological Bulletin 66 (2): 107–133 - get paper here
- Ullenbruch, K.; Grell, O.; Böhme, W. 2010. Reptiles from southern Benin, West Africa, with the description of a new Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), and a country-wide checklist. Bonn Zool. Bull. 57 (1): 31-54 - get paper here
- Villiers,A. 1950. Les serpents de l'ouest africain. Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Dakar
- 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.
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