Letheobia wittei

Letheobia wittei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. wittei
Binomial name
Letheobia wittei (Roux-Estève, 1974)
Synonyms [1]
Rhinotyphlops wittei Roux-Estève, 1974 Letheobia wittei — Broadley & Wallach, 2000

Letheobia wittei, also known commonly as De Witte's gracile blind snake or Witte's beaked snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. ^{[2] [3]} The species is endemic to Africa. ^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, wittei, is in honor of Belgian herpetologist Gaston-François de Witte. ^[4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. wittei is lowland rainforest. ^[1]

Reproduction

L. wittei is oviparous. ^[1]

References

1. Species Letheobia wittei at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
2. 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. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 29 August 2007.
4. 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. (Letheobia wittei, p. 288).

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)". Zootaxa1515: 31–68. (Letheobia wittei, p. 48).
• 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 wittei, p. 30).
• Roux-Estève, Rolande (1974). "Révision systématique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Reptilia. Serpentes ". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Séries A, 87: 1–313. (Rhinotyphlops wittei, new species, p. 239). (in French).