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    Species Accepted

    Afrotyphlops schlegelii (Bianconi, 1849)

    Schlegel’s Beaked blind snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Afrotyphlops
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      Geelbont-erdslang Afrikaans
      Grå Kæmpeormeslange Danish
      Peter's Giant Blind Snake
      Peter’s phase
      Schlegel's Beaked Blind Snake
      Schlegel's Beaked Blind Snake
      Schlegel's Giant Blind Snake
      Schlegel’s Beaked blind snake English
      Schlegel’s Giant Blind Snake English
      slepák Schlegelův Czech

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      65 results
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      Boulenger, G. A. (1888). On new or little known South African reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 2: 136-141.
      Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke, Davies, & John. (2021). Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 Pp., ISBN 9781775847373.
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      Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer. (2018). Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II).
      Stejneger, L. (1893). On some collections of reptiles and batrachians from East Africa and the adjacent islands, recently received from Dr. W. L. Abbott and Mr. William Astor Chanler, with descriptions of new species. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 16: 711-741.
      Loveridge, A. (1933). Reports on the scientific Results of an Expedition to the Southwestem Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. VII. Herpetology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 74: 197-415.
      Jordaan, P. R., Els, P. U., Naylor, S., Pretorius, C., Sholto-Douglas, C., & Wright, C. D. (2025). The Herpetofaunal Diversity of the Munywana Conservancy, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 20(3), 588-603.
      Parrinha, D., Calado, F. M., Marques, M. P., Bauer, A. M., & Ceríaco, L. M. (2025). Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History. Vertebrate Zoology, 75, 353-404.

      Citation

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