Letheobia wittei Roux-Esteve
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Letheobia wittei (Roux-Estève)
(Fig 5 B)
De Witte’s gracile blind-snake
Typhlops vrydaghi – (part) Witte 1966: 50.
Rhinotyphlops wittei Roux-Estève 1974, Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., sér. A. Zool. 87: 239, Fig. 179. Type locality: Vandia-Poshe, rég. riv. Liki-Bembe, terr. Libenge, Distr. Ubangi, Prov. Équateur, Zaire [= Democratic Republic of Congo] (ca. 04°30’N, 19°00’E, elevation 520 m), collected by Cremer & Neumann, 23 August 1948, holotype IRSNB 2511; Roux-Estève 1975: 445; Hahn 1980: 36; Lang 1990: 20; Meirte 1992: 20; McDiarmid et al. 1999: 88. Letheobia wittei – Chirio & Ineich, 2006: 42.
Description. Snout with an angular horizontal edge. Rostral very broad, rounded posteriorly; frontal very large and deep, crescentic, in broad contact with nasals; supraocular transverse, its lateral apex wedged between preocular and ocular, which is separated from the labials by a very large subocular; eye not visible; nasal suture arising from second labial; SIP II (N1, P, S, S); scale rows 20-20-20; MD 501–505; vertebrae 368–374; MD/V ratio 1.35–1.36; L/D ratio 68. Very faintly pigmented.
Size. Largest specimen (IRSNB 2511 – holotype) 310 mm in total length.
Habitat. Lowland rain forest.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality, opposite Bangui in Libenge Territory, Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 11).
Localities. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Vania-Posche, IRSNB 2511 (holotype), 2512 (paratype).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Roux-Esteve
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Typhlopidae
- Genus
- Letheobia
- Species
- wittei
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Witte, G. - F. de (1966) Reptiles. In: Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba, Mission H. de Saeger en collaboration avec P. Baert, G. Demoulin, I. Denisoff, J. Martin, M. Micha, A. Noirfalise, P. Schoemaker, G. Troupin et J. Verschuren (1949 - 1952). Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo, Bruxelles, (48), 1 - 108, Pls. 1 - 5.
- Roux-Esteve, R. (1974). Revision systematique des Typhlopidae d'Afrique: Reptilia - Serpentes. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), (N. S.) (A, Zoologie), 87, 1 - 313.
- Roux-Esteve, R. (1975) Recherches sur la morphologie, la biogeographie et la phylogenie des Typhlopidae d'Afrique. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (Dakar), (1974) 36 A (2), 428 - 508.
- Hahn, D. E. (1980) Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Anomalepididae, Leptotyphlopidae, Typhlopidae. Das Tierreich (Berlin), 101, i - xii, 1 - 93.
- Lang, M. (1990) Annotated catalogue of the type-specimens from the herpetological collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels. Documents de Travail de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Bruxelles), (59), 1 - 36.
- Meirte, D. (1992) Cles de determination des serpents d _ ' Afrique. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge (Tervuren), (8 vo - Sciences Zoologiques), 267, 1 - 152.
- Chirio, L. & Ineich, I. (2006) Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology (Matieland), 55 (1), 23 - 59.