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{{Taxobox
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| genus = Leptotyphlops
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| species = drewesi
| subphylum = [[Vertebrata]]
| authority = [[Van Wallach|Wallach]], 1996
| classis = [[Reptilia]]
| ordo = [[Squamata]]
| subordo = [[Serpentes]]
| infraordo = [[Scolecophidia]]
| familia = [[Leptotyphlopidae]]
| genus = ''[[Leptotyphlops]]''
| species = ''L. drewesi''
| binomial = ''Leptotyphlops drewesi''
| binomial_authority = [[Van Wallach|Wallach]], 1996
| synonyms = *''Leptotyphlops drewesi'' {{small|Wallach, 1996}}
| synonyms = *''Leptotyphlops drewesi'' {{small|Wallach, 1996}}
*''Epacrophis drewesi'' <br>{{small|— [[Solny Arnardottir Adalsteinsson|Adalsteinsson]] et al., 2009}}<ref name="RDB">"''Epacrophis drewesi'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
*''Epacrophis drewesi'' <br>{{small|— [[Solny Arnardottir Adalsteinsson|Adalsteinsson]] et al., 2009}}<ref name="RDB">"''Epacrophis drewesi'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

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Drewes's worm snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Leptotyphlops
Species:
L. drewesi
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops drewesi
Wallach, 1996
Synonyms
  • Leptotyphlops drewesi Wallach, 1996
  • Epacrophis drewesi
    Adalsteinsson et al., 2009[1]

Leptotyphlops drewesi, or Drewes' worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, drewesi, is in honor of American herpetologist Robert Clifton Drewes.[4]

Geographic range

L. drewesi is endemic to Kenya.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Epacrophis drewesi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 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).
  3. ^ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops drewesi, p. 75).

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)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Epacrophis drewesi, new combination).
  • Wallach V. 1996. "Leptotyphlops drewesi n. sp., a worm snake from central Kenya (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)". Journal of African Zoology 110 (6): 425-431.