Lined blind snake

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Lined blind snake
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:
A. lineolatus
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops lineolatus
(Jan, 1864) [2] [3]
Synonyms [2]
  • Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) lineolatus Jan, 1864
  • Rhinotyphlops lineolatus — Chirio & Ineich, 2006
  • Afrotyphlops lineolatus — Broadley & Wallach, 2009

The lined blind snake (Afrotyphlops lineolatus), also known as the common lined blind snake, common lined worm snake, or lineolate blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. [1] [2] [4] [5] It is widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east and Angola and Zambia in the south. [1] [2] It mainly eats ants and termites. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Chirio, L.; Segniagbeto, G.; Niagate, B.; Howell, K.; Msuya, C.A.; Ngalason, W.; Beraduccii, J.; Spawls, S. (2021). "Afrotyphlops lineolatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T13300752A13300764. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T13300752A13300764.en . Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Afrotyphlops lineolatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Home". dahmstierleben.de.
  4. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  5. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1


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