Letheobia graueri

Letheobia graueri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. graueri
Binomial name
Letheobia graueri (Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms [2]
Typhlops graueri Sternfeld, 1912 Rhinotyphlops graueri — Roux-Estève, 1974 [3] [4] Letheobia graueri — Hedges et al., 2014

Letheobia graueri, also known commonly as the Lake Tanganyika gracile blind snake, Grauer's gracile blind snake, ^[5] Sternfeld's beaked snake, and Grauer's blind snake, ^[6] is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to central and eastern Africa. ^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, graueri, is in honor of Rudolf Grauer, an Austrian zoologist and explorer. ^[6]

Geographic range

L. graueri is found in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and western Uganda. ^[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. graueri is savanna, but it has also been found in agricultural areas. ^[1]

Behavior

L. graueri is terrestrial and fossorial. ^[1]

Reproduction

L. graueri is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Spawls, S.; Branch, W.R.; Wagner, P.; Safari, I.; Chenga, J. (2021). "Letheobia graueri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T178733A46181990. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T178733A46181990.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Letheobia graueri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 January 2019.
3. 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).
4. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 29 August 2007.
5. Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 356. ISBN   978-1-4729-4309-5. (ePDF).
6. 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 graueri, p. 106).

Further reading

• Dehling JM, Hinkel HH, Ensikat H-J, Babilon, Fischer E (2018). "A new blind snake of the genus Letheobia (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Rwanda with redescriptions of L. gracilis (Sternfeld, 1910) and L. graueri (Sternfeld, 1912) and the introduction of a non-invasive preparation procedure for scanning electron microscopy in zoology". Zootaxa4378 (4): 480–490.
• Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology49: 1–61. (Letheobia graueri, new combination).
• Roux-Estève R (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Reptilia. Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Nouvelle Série – Série A, Zoologie (Paris) 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops graueri, new combination, p. 227). (in French).
• Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia ". pp. 197–279. In: Schubotz H (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV [Volume 4], Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 405 pp. + Plates I-XI. (Typhlops graueri, new species, p. 264). (in German).