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Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Cameroon.
Type locality: œKribi,Cameroon (STERNFELD 1908)
Type locality: œBitye,Cameroon (BOULENGER 1914)
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Zenker's worm snake

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Zenker's worm snake (Letheobia zenkeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3][1] The species is native to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, zenkeri, is in honor of German botanist Georg August Zenker.[4]

Geographic range

L. zenkeri is endemic to Cameroon.[1]

Description

L. zenkeri may attain a total length (including tail) of 12–13.5 centimetres (4.7–5.3 in). It has 18 scales around the body, and is "colourless" (farblos, in German).[5][6]

Reproduction

L. zenkeri is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Letheobia zenkeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Typhlops zenkeri ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  3. ^ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  4. ^ 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. (Typhlops zenkeri, p. 293).
  5. ^ Sternfeld (1908).
  6. ^ Boulenger (1914).
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Zenker's worm snake: Brief Summary

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Zenker's worm snake (Letheobia zenkeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to Central Africa.

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