Letheobia uluguruensis

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Letheobia uluguruensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Letheobia
Species:
L. uluguruensis
Binomial name
Letheobia uluguruensis
(Barbour & Loveridge, 1928)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops uluguruensis

Letheobia uluguruensis, also known as the Uluguru gracile blind snake or Uluguri worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. [2] [3] [4] This species is endemic to the Uluguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. [1] [2] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Howell, K.; Beraduccii, J.; Ngalason, W. (2014). "Letheobia uluguruensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014 e.T22476921A22476948. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T22476921A22476948.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Letheobia uluguruensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 29 July 2018.
  3. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  4. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1
  5. Gower, David J.; Loader, Simon P. & Wilkinson, Mark (2004). "Assessing the conservation status of soil-dwelling vertebrates: Insights from the rediscovery of Typhlops uluguruensis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 2 (1): 79–82. doi:10.1017/s1477200004001343. S2CID   54799283.