Leptotyphlops fitzingeri

Leptotyphlops fitzingeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Leptotyphlops
Species: L. fitzingeri
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops fitzingeri
(Jan, 1861)

Leptotyphlops fitzingeri is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, fitzingeri, honors Leopold Fitzinger, an Austrian herpetologist.[3]

References

  1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops fitzingeri, p. 91).


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