Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
{{Short description|Species of snake}}
{{Speciesbox
| genus = Rhinotyphlops
| species = scorteccii
| authority = (Gans & Laurent, 1965)
| synonyms = *Typhlops scorteccii
{{small|Gans & Laurent, 1965}}
- Rhinotyphlops scorteccii
{{small|— Roux-Estève, 1974}} - Letheobia scortecci [sic]
{{small|— Broadley & Wallach, 2007}}
| synonyms_ref ={{EMBL species|genus=Rhinotyphlops|species=scortecci}} www.reptile-database.org.
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Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, commonly known as Scortecci's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).{{ITIS|id=634397|taxon=Rhinotyphlops |accessdate=29 August 2007}} The species is endemic to Somalia.
Etymology
The specific name, scorteccii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Giuseppe Scortecci (1898-1973)."Giuseppe Scortecci". Wikispecies.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}}. (Letheobia scorteccii, Rhinotyphlops scorteccii, p. 240).
Reproduction
R. scorteccii is oviparous.
References
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Further reading
- Broadley, Wallach V (2007). "A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope, revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Zootaxa 1515: 31–68. ("Letheobia scortecci [sic]", new combination).
- Gans C, Laurent RF, Pandit H (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1–93. (Typhlops scorteccii, new species, p. 56).
- Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. ("Rhinotyphlops scortecci [sic]", p. 31).
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Category:Endemic fauna of Somalia
Category:Reptiles described in 1965
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