Typhlops lehneri
| Typhlops lehneri | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Typhlops |
| Species: | T. lehneri |
| Binomial name | |
| Typhlops lehneri Roux, 1926 | |
| Synonyms | |
Typhlops lehneri is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]
Etymology
The specific name, lehneri, is in honor of geologist Ernst Lehner.[4]
Geographic range
T. lehneri is endemic to Venezuela.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Amerotyphlops lehneri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
- ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (Typhlops lehneri, p. 107).
- ↑ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watson, and Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops lehneri, p. 154).
Further reading
- Hedges, Stephen B., Angela B. Marion, Kelly M. Lipp, Julie Marin, and Nicolas Vidal. 2014. "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Amerotyphlops lehneri, new combination).
- Roux, Jean. 1926. "Notes d'erpétologie sud-américaine ". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 33 (4): 291-299. (Typhlops lehneri, new species, pp. 298–299). (in French).
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