Sundevall's worm snake explained

Sundevall's worm snake (Tricheilostoma sundewalli) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[1] The species is endemic to Central Africa and West Africa.

Etymology

The epithet, sundewalli, is in honor of Carl Jakob Sundevall, a Swedish zoologist.^[2]

Geographic range

T. sundewalli is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.

Further reading

• Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zotaxa 2244: 1-50. (Guinea sundewalli, new combination).
• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. ("Glauconia sundevallii [sic]", p. 68).
• Jan G (1862). "Note sulla famiglia dei Tiflopidi sui loro generi e sulle specie del genere Stenostoma". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 1: 178-199. (Stenostoma sundewalli, new species, p. 191). (in Italian).
• Hedges SB (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Tricheilostoma sundewalli, new combination).

Notes and References

1. [:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Leptotyphlops sundewalli, p. 258).