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    Species Accepted

    Afrotyphlops gierrai (Mocquard, 1897)

    Gierra's Blind Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Afrotyphlops
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Gierra's Blind Snake English
      Usambara Spotted Blind Snake English
      Usambara Spotted Worm Snake English
      Узамбарская слепозмейка Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Schmidt, K. P. (1923). Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146.
      Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. (1928). A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265.
      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.
      Menegon, M., & Nike Doggart, N. O. (2008). The Nguru mountains of Tanzania, an outstanding hotspot of herpetofaunal diversity. Acta Herpetologica 3 (2): 107-127.
      Rasmussen, J. B. (1981). The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188.
      Mocquard, F. (1897). Note sur quelques Reptiles de Tanga, don de M. Gierra. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Nat., Paris, 3 (4): 122-123.
      Laurent, R. F. (1964). A Revision of the punctatus Group of African Typhlops. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (6): 387-444.
      Hedges, S. B., Marion, A. B., Lipp, K. M., Marin, J., & Vidal, N. (2014). A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61.
      Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon. (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 Pp.

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