Biology:Stejneger's beaked snake
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Short description: Species of snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Letheobia |
| Species: | L. stejnegeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Letheobia stejnegeri (Loveridge, 1931)
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Stejneger's beaked snake (Letheobia stejnegeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Middle Africa.
Etymology
The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honor of Leonhard Stejneger, Norwegian-born American herpetologist at the Smithsonian Institution for over 60 years.[4]
Geographic range
L. stejnegeri is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Congo.[1][3]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of L. stejnegeri is forest.[1]
Reproduction
L. stejnegeri is oviparous.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zassi-Boulou, A.-G.; Kusamba, C. (2021). "Letheobia stejnegeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178675A126510139. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178675A126510139.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178675/126510139. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN:1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN:1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Letheobia stejnegeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 December 2018.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri, p. 252).
Further reading
- Broadley DG, 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. (Letheobia stejnegeri, new combination).
- Loveridge A (1931). "A new snake of the genus Typhlops from the Belgian Congo". Copeia 1931 (3): 92–93. (Typhlops stejnegeri, new species).
Wikidata ☰ Q19689112 entry
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