Biology:Lined blind snake

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Lined blind snake
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:
A. lineolatus
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops lineolatus
(Jan, 1864)[2][3]
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) lineolatus Jan, 1864
  • Rhinotyphlops lineolatusChirio & Ineich, 2006
  • Afrotyphlops lineolatusBroadley & Wallach, 2009

The lined blind snake (Afrotyphlops lineolatus), also known as the common lined blind snake, common lined worm snake, or lineolate blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2][4][5] It is widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east and Angola and Zambia in the south.[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chirio, L.; Segniagbeto, G.; Niagate, B.; Howell, K.; Msuya, C.A.; Ngalason, W.; Beraduccii, J.; Spawls, S. (2021). "Afrotyphlops lineolatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T13300752A13300764. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T13300752A13300764.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13300752/13300764. Retrieved 18 October 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Afrotyphlops lineolatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 August 2018.
  3. "Home". http://www.dahmstierleben.de/. 
  4. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634653. Retrieved August 15, 2010. 
  5. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1

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