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    Species Accepted

    Rhinotyphlops schinzi (Boettger, 1887)

    (Schinz's) Beaked Blind Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Rhinotyphlops
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      (Schinz's) Beaked Blind Snake English
      Beaked Blind Snake English
      Schinz se Haakneusblindeslang Afrikaans
      Schinz's Beaked Blind Snake English
      Schinz’s Beaked Blind Snake English
      Sortplettet Næbormeslange Danish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      20 results
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      Mattison, & Chris. (2007). The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press.
      Lobón-Rovira, J., Sierra, P., Portas, R., Pinto, P. V., & Martínez-Freiría, F. (2025). Noteworthy herpetological notes from Namibe Province, Angola. Herpetology Notes 18: 99-105.
      Boettger, O. (1887). Zweiter Beitrag zur Herpetologie Südwest- und Südafrikas. Ber. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., Frankfurt Am Main, 1887:135-173.
      Broadley, Donald G. & Wallach, V. (2009). A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species. Zootaxa 2255: 1-100.
      Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch. (2013). Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115.
      Kabisch, K. (2003). Zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten. Vor 170 Jahren erschien in Leipzig die “Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien” von Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. Die Aquarien- Und Terrarienzeitschrift 56 (11): 20-21.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1893). Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 Pp.
      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.
      Auerbach, R. D. (1987). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 Pp.

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