Steinhaus's blind snake explained

Steinhaus's worm snake (Afrotyphlops steinhausi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[1] 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.^[2]

Geographic range

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

Reproduction

A. steinhausi is oviparous.

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". Zootaxa 2255: 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 Herpetology 55 (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 Anstalten 26 (Supplement 2): 205–247. (Typhlops steinhausi, new species, pp. 209–210). (in German).

Notes and References

1. [:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid, Roy W.]
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Typhlops steinhausi, p. 252).