Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus (PETERS, 1878)
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Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Afrotyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Yellow-striped blind-snake, Kenya Beaked Snake |
Synonym | Typhlops (Letheobia) unitaeniatus PETERS 1878: 205 Typhlops unitaeniatus — BOULENGER 1893: 55 Typhlops unitaeniatus — SCORTECCI 1931: 15 Typhlops unitaeniatus unitaeniatus — LOVERIDGE 1936: 227 Typhlops unitaeniatus unitaeniatus — BOGERT 1942 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — ROUX-ESTÈVE 1974: 241 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — LARGEN & RASMUSSEN 1993 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 88 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — SPAWLS et al. 2001 Letheobia unitaeniatus — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007 Letheobia unitaeniata — PYRON & BURBRINK 2013 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 362 |
Distribution | Somalia, SE Ethiopia ?, E Kenya, NE Tanzania; elevation 20–1600 m. Type locality: “Taita” [Kenya], (ca. 03°25’S, 38°25’E) |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: ZMB 9246 |
Diagnosis | Description. Snout very prominent, with an acutely angular horizontal keratinised edge on rostral, rostral very large, longer than broad and extending well beyond the lovel of the eyes, ventrally rostral more than half width of head at level of nostrils; frontal crescentic, separated from the nasal by two supraoculars, the lower with its lateral apex between nasal and preocular; eye visible beneath the upper anterior edge of the nasal; nasal suture arising from the second labial; SIP X (N1, P, O, O). Scale rows usually 26-24-24; MD 467–586 (mean 501.26). L/D ratio 8–77. Dark brown to black dorsally, slightly lighter below, with a bright yellow vertebral stripe, three to five scales wide, running from the back of the head to about 1 cm before the tail tip. For abbreviations see L. caeca. From BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007. |
Comment | Habitat: Mainly Acacia- Commiphora deciduous bushland and thicket, but also entering coastal mosaic. Sympatric with Letheobia ataeniata on the sandy levees on the west bank of the Juba River (Hoevers & Johnson 1982). Not in Ethiopia fide BROADLEY & WALLACH 2007. |
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