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    Species Accepted

    Leptotyphlops distanti (Boulenger, 1892)

    Distant's Thread Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Leptotyphlops
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Distant's Thread Snake English
      Distant's Worm Snake English
      Трансваальская узкоротая змея Russian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, 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.
      Hahn D. E. & V. WALLACH,. (1998). Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 23: 50-62.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.
      Broadley D G. Wallach V. (1997). A review of the worm snakes of Mozambique (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) with the description of a new species. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10 (11): 111-119.
      Broadley, Donald G. & Broadley, Sheila. (1999). A review of the Arican wormsnakes from South of Latitude 12°S (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Syntarsus 5: 1-36.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Broadley, D. G., & WATSON, G. (1976). A revision of the Worm Snakes of South-eastern Africa (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Occ. Pap. Nation. Mus. Rhodesia Bulawayo, (BS) 1976: (8): 465-510.
      Branch, William R. (1993). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
      Fitzsimons, V. (1966). A check-list, with syntopic keys, to the snakes of southern Africa. Annals Transvaal Museum 25 (3): 35-79.
      Broadley, Donald G. & Wallach, V. (2007). A revision of the genus Leptotyphlops in northeastern Africa and southwestern Arabia (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 1408: 1–78.

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