Steinhaus's blind snake

Steinhaus's blind snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Afrotyphlops
Species:	A. steinhausi
Binomial name
Afrotyphlops steinhausi F. Werner, 1909
Synonyms [2]
Typhlops steinhausi F. Werner, 1909 Rhinotyphlops steinhausi — Chirio & Ineich, 2006 Afrotyphlops steinhausi — Broadley & Wallach, 2009

Steinhaus's worm snake (Afrotyphlops steinhausi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. ^{[3] [4]} The species is endemic to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, steinhausi, is in honor of German marine biologist Carl Otto Steinhaus (1870–1919) of the Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg . ^[5]

Geographic range

A. steinhausi is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Republic of the Congo. ^[2]

Reproduction

A. steinhausi is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Chirio, L.; Zassi-Boulou, A.-G.; Kusamba, C.; Gonwouo, N.L. (2021). "Afrotyphlops steinhausi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T13300786A13300796. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T13300786A13300796.en . Retrieved 31 August 2025.
2. Species Afrotyphlops steinhausi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 16, 2010.
4. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
5. 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. (Typhlops steinhausi, p. 252).

Further reading

• Broadley DG, Wallach V (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species". Zootaxa2255: 1–100. (Afrotyphlops steinhausi, new combination, p. 34).
• Chirio, Laurent; Ineich, Ivan (2006). "Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic". African Journal of Herpetology55 (1): 23–59. (Rhinotyphlops steinhausi, new combination).
• Werner F (1909). "Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Schlangen ". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten26 (Supplement 2): 205–247. (Typhlops steinhausi, new species, pp. 209–210). (in German).