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

作者：Broadley Donald G^*; Wallach Van

来源：Zootaxa, 2009, 2255(2255): 1-100.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.2255.1.1

• Typhlopidae
• Typhlops
• Afrotyphlops
• Megatyphlops
• Rhinotyphlops
• Ramphotyphlops
• taxonomy
• distribution
• visceral anatomy
• eastern and southern Africa

All eastern and southern African species of Typhlopidae ( excluding Letheobia) are reviewed with synonymies, diagnoses, and distribution maps. The 27 species from this region are arranged as follows: three species remain in Typhlops (with T. cuneirostris calabresii elevated to full species status), 16 species are transferred from Typhlops to a new genus endemic to Africa ( including a new species described from Kenya), three species remain in Rhinotyphlops, four species are transferred from Rhinotyphlops to a new genus endemic to Africa ( with R. schlegelii brevis and R. s. mucruso elevated to full species status), and one invasive species of Ramphotyphlops is included, which has been established in a few areas. Keys to the included species and all six African typhlopid genera are provided. A current taxonomic synopsis is provided for extralimital African and Southwest Asian typhlopid species.

• 出版日期2009-10-8