Letheobia lumbriciformis

Letheobia lumbriciformis, also known as the Zanzibar gracile blind snake or wormlike beaked snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. It is endemic to East Africa and is known from northeastern Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and from eastern Kenya.[2]

Letheobia lumbriciformis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. lumbriciformis
Binomial name
Letheobia lumbriciformis (Peters, 1874)
Synonyms[2]
Onychocephalus (Letheobia) lumbriciformis Peters, 1874 Typhlops lumbriciformis – Boulenger, 1893 Typhlops kleebergi F. Werner, 1904 Rhinotyphlops lumbriciformis – Roux-Estève, 1974[3][4] Letheobia lumbriciformis – Broadley & Wallach, 2007

References

1. Malonza, P. & Spawls, S. 2014. Letheobia lumbriciformis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T22476596A22476611. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T22476596A22476611.en. Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
2. Letheobia lumbriciformis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 19 January 2019.
3. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
4. "Rhinotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

Further reading

• Peters, W. 1874. Über einige neue Reptilien (Lacerta, Eremias, Diploglossus, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Sepsina, Ablepharus, Simotes, Onychocephalus). Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Volume 1874, pp. 368–377.