Namibiana latifrons

Namibiana latifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Namibiana
Species:	N. latifrons
Binomial name
	Namibiana latifrons; (Sternfeld, 1908)
Synonyms
	Glauconia latifronsSternfeld, 1908; Leptotyphlops latifrons(Sternfeld, 1908);

Last updated November 05, 2019

Namibiana latifrons, also known as the Benguela worm snake or Sternfeld's threadsnake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. It is endemic to the southwestern coast of Angola.^[1]

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal.

The Leptotyphlopidae are a family of snakes found in North America, South America, Africa, & Asia. All are fossorial and adapted to burrowing, feeding on ants and termites. Two subfamilies are recognized.

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References

↑ Namibiana latifrons at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 13 September 2018.

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[1] Namibiana latifrons at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 13 September 2018.