Tricheilostoma sundewalli
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Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862)
Stenostoma (Tricheilostoma) sundewalli Jan, 1862: 191. Type locality: unknown. Designated as West Africa (Jan & Sordelli 1861).
Glauconia gestri Boulenger, 1906: 15. Type locality: “Fernando Po (Basilé and Musola, 400-700m.)… Buea, Cameroon ”.
Leptotyphlops sundevalli (Jan, 1862): Villiers 1950: 55.
Guinea sundewalli (Jan, 1862): Adalsteinsson et al. 2009: 11.
Distribution. This species extends from Ghana to southwestern Central African Republic. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Bioko at Basilé and Musola (Boulenger 1906) (Map 35B).
Comments. The specimens from Bioko (Basilé and Musola) examined by Boulenger (1906), together with an additional specimen from Cameroun (Buea), represent the syntypes of Glauconia gestri Boulenger, 1906, currently a synonym of T. sundewalli.
Specimens examined. No specimens have been found in the examined collections.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Jan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Leptotyphlopidae
- Genus
- Tricheilostoma
- Species
- sundewalli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862) sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta & Riva, 2022
References
- Jan, G. (1862) Enumerazione sistematica delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae. Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia, 2, 1 - 76.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1906) Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 3 (2), 196 - 216.
- Villiers, A. (1950) Les Serpents de L'ouest Africain. Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Dakar, 148 pp.
- Adalsteinsson, S. A., Branch, W. R., Trape, S., Vitt, L. J. & Hedges, S. B. (2009) Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa, 2244, 1 - 50.