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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8E380890A8F96FF2E4F949" bold="true" box="[151,385,1746,1772]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="58">Letheobia somalica</emphasis>
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(Boulenger)
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(
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B)
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<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF8E380890A8F8A0F295F892" blockId="27.[151,542,1746,1847]" box="[151,496,1821,1847]" pageId="27" pageNumber="58">Ethiopian gracile blind-snake</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8E380890A8F8D0F20DF821" box="[151,360,1901,1924]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="58">Typhlops somalicus</emphasis>
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, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1895: 536, Pl. 30,
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.
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locality: Beearso, Galla or Western Somali-land [= Bio Asse River, eastern
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] (
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,
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, elevation
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), collected by A. Donaldson-Smith,
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BMNH 1946.1.11.54 (ex-BMNH 1895.6.11.5);
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: 216, 1896b: 589;
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF8E380891BCF870F142F841" author="Calabresi" box="[387,551,1997,2020]" pageId="27" pageNumber="65" refString="Calabresi, E. (1918) Rettili Somali raccolti fra Gelib e Margherita (Riva sinistra del Guiba) dai dott. Mazzocchi e Scarsellati, nel 1912. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), 29 (8), 122 - 124." type="journal article" year="1918">Calabresi 1918</bibRefCitation>
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: 123;
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: 324; Parker 1949: 22.
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, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 11: 77.
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locality: Choa,
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[= Shoa Province,
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<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF89380F913EFF05F204FF6A" box="[257,353,184,207]" name="Ethiopia" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
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],
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<typeStatus id="54A7886DFF89380F914EFF05F2ABFF6A" box="[369,462,184,207]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
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MNHN 1904.603-04, collected by M. Didier;
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: 317
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;
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: 104
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.
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F90A8FF65F2DDFF4A" box="[151,440,216,239]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">
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<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF89380F90A8FF65F2C6FF4A" box="[151,419,216,239]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Rhinotyphlops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="somalicus">Rhinotyphlops somalicus</taxonomicName>
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–
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F9180FF65F1A5FF4A" author="Roux-Esteve" box="[447,704,216,239]" page="200" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="1974">
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: 200
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</treatmentCitation>
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, Fig. 140, 1975: 445 (part);
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F93CEFF65F7C0FF4A" author="Largen" box="[1009,1189,216,239]" page="55" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="1978">
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F93CEFF65F718FF4A" author="Largen" box="[1009,1149,216,239]" pageId="28" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
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: 55
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;
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F948DFF65F637FF4A" author="Hahn" box="[1202,1362,216,239]" page="35" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="1980">
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F948DFF65F649FF4A" author="Hahn" box="[1202,1324,216,239]" pageId="28" pageNumber="65" refString="Hahn, D. E. (1980) Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Anomalepididae, Leptotyphlopidae, Typhlopidae. Das Tierreich (Berlin), 101, i - xii, 1 - 93." type="journal article" year="1980">Hahn 1980</bibRefCitation>
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: 35
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(part);
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F90F8FF45F21BFEAA" author="Meirte" box="[199,382,248,271]" page="20" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="1992">
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F90F8FF45F234FEAA" author="Meirte" box="[199,337,248,271]" pageId="28" pageNumber="66" refString="Meirte, D. (1992) Cles de determination des serpents d _ ' Afrique. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge (Tervuren), (8 vo - Sciences Zoologiques), 267, 1 - 152." type="journal article" year="1992">Meirte 1992</bibRefCitation>
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: 20
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;
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F91B3FF45F193FEAA" author="Largen" box="[396,758,248,271]" page="321" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="1993">
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F91B3FF45F1D8FEAA" author="Largen" box="[396,701,248,271]" pageId="28" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. & Rasmussen, J. B. (1993) Catalogue of the snakes of Ethiopia (Reptilia Serpentes), including identification keys. Tropical Zoology (Firenze), 6, 313 - 434." type="journal article" year="1993">Largen & Rasmussen 1993</bibRefCitation>
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: 321
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; McDiarmid
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F93B3FF45F0A3FEAA" box="[908,966,248,271]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">et al.</emphasis>
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1999: 87;
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: 181
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</treatmentCitation>
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;
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<treatmentCitation id="0ABD10DEFF89380F90F8FEA5F28CFE8A" author="Wallach" box="[199,489,280,303]" page="80" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" year="2004">
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F90F8FEA5F2A4FE8A" author="Wallach" box="[199,449,280,303]" pageId="28" pageNumber="68" refString="Wallach, V. & Lanza, B. (2004) Taxonomic reassessment of Giuseppe Scortecci's scolecophidian type and non-type specimens from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano (Reptilia: Serpentes). Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano, 145 (1), 79 - 91." type="journal article" year="2004">Wallach & Lanza 2004</bibRefCitation>
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: 80
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.
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</treatmentCitationGroup>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C3066544FF89380F90A8FEE2F108FD37" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" type="description">
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<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF89380F90A8FEE2F74FFDBF" blockId="28.[151,1436,351,658]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F90A8FEE2F24AFEDC" bold="true" box="[151,303,351,377]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Description.</emphasis>
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Snout pointed, acutely angular in lateral profile. Rostral broad above and below, oval in dorsal view; frontal subtrapezoid; supraocular transverse, its lateral apex between preocular and ocular; eye invisible; nasal divided, its inferior suture arising from first labial;
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<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF89380F9360FE0DF0ECFE6F" box="[863,905,432,458]" name="Cyprus" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">SIP</collectingCountry>
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II (P) (N1, N2, P/O, O), one specimen (MCZ 126236) with
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<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF89380F9101FE65F20CFE57" box="[318,361,472,498]" name="Cyprus" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">SIP</collectingCountry>
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X (N1, N2, P, O) on one side of head;
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<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF89380F937CFE65F0E4FE57" box="[835,897,472,498]" name="Egypt" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">MSR</collectingCountry>
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24–30, reduction A/B 0–2, B/C 0; MD 510– 696; vertebrae 301–391; MD/V ratio 1.68–1.84; L/D ratio 54–66. Colourless.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF89380F90F8FD9AF0C0FDE7" blockId="28.[151,1436,351,658]" box="[199,933,551,578]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F90F8FD9AF265FDE4" bold="true" box="[199,256,551,577]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Size.</emphasis>
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Longest specimen (
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<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF89380F91D4FD95F1E6FDE7" author="Largen" box="[491,643,552,578]" pageId="28" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
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)
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||
<quantity id="4CE49B2AFF89380F92ACFD95F191FDE7" box="[659,756,552,578]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.5" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" unit="mm" value="550.0">550 mm</quantity>
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||
in total length.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF89380F90F8FDF2F108FD37" blockId="28.[151,1436,351,658]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F90F8FDF2F24BFDCC" bold="true" box="[199,302,591,617]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Habitat.</emphasis>
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||
Ethiopian montane grassland and woodland, but entering
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF89380F93E5FDEDF748FDCF" box="[986,1069,592,618]" name="Somalia" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Somali</collectingCountry>
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F940AFDEDF64EFDCC" box="[1077,1323,592,617]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Acacia-Commiphora</emphasis>
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||
bushland and thicket along eastern drainage lines.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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<caption id="DF636647FF89380F90A8F880F1E4F818" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/177287/files/figure.png" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" targetBox="[366,1223,734,1813]" targetPageId="28">
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<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF89380F90A8F880F1E4F818" blockId="28.[151,1436,1853,1981]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F90A8F880F27CF8F0" bold="true" box="[151,281,1853,1877]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">FIGURE 9.</emphasis>
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||
Dorsal, lateral and ventral views of head of: A.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF89380F9325F883F0A5F8F0" box="[794,960,1854,1877]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Typhlops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="uluguruensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F9325F883F0A5F8F0" box="[794,960,1854,1877]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">L. uluguruensis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(MCZ 23081, paratype – Nyange, Tanzania, after Roux-Estève 1974: Fig. 23); B.
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF89380F9219F8DCF1C6F8DD" box="[550,675,1889,1912]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Letheobia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="somalica">
|
||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F9219F8DCF1C6F8DD" box="[550,675,1889,1912]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">L. somalica</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(MNHN 1904.603, syntype of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF89380F93CAF8DCF62EF8D2" authority="Mocquard" authorityName="Mocquard" box="[1013,1355,1888,1912]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Typhlops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acutirostris">
|
||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F93CAF8DCF7B3F8DD" box="[1013,1238,1889,1912]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">Typhlops acutirostris</emphasis>
|
||
Mocquard
|
||
</taxonomicName>
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||
– Shoa Province, Ethiopia, after Roux-Estève 1974: Fig. 140); C.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF89380F9335F83EF0EAF83F" box="[778,911,1923,1946]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Letheobia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="28" pageNumber="59" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythraea">
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F9335F83EF0EAF83F" box="[778,911,1923,1946]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">L. erythraea</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(NMW 16949 – Gheleb, Eritrea, D. G. Broadley illustration
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF89380F9135F818F27FF818" bold="true" box="[266,282,1957,1981]" pageId="28" pageNumber="59">).</emphasis>
|
||
The lines indicate 1 mm to scale.
|
||
</paragraph>
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||
</caption>
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||
<caption id="DF636647FF88380E90A8F91EF00DF91E" box="[151,872,1699,1723]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/177288/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" targetBox="[269,1322,196,1675]" targetPageId="29">
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<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF88380E90A8F91EF00DF91E" blockId="29.[151,872,1699,1723]" box="[151,872,1699,1723]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF88380E90A8F91EF243F91E" bold="true" box="[151,294,1699,1723]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">FIGURE 10.</emphasis>
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||
Distribution of the East African species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF88380E92C9F919F001F91E" box="[758,868,1700,1723]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Letheobia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Letheobia</taxonomicName>
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||
.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</caption>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C3066544FF88380E90F8F954F080F856" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" type="distribution">
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||
<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF88380E90F8F954F03DF88E" blockId="29.[151,1436,1769,2035]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
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||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF88380E90F8F954F202F8A6" bold="true" box="[199,359,1769,1795]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">Distribution.</emphasis>
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||
Highlands of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF88380E9223F954F1E7F8A6" box="[540,642,1769,1795]" name="Ethiopia" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<quantity id="4CE49B2AFF88380E92ADF954F059F8A6" box="[658,828,1769,1795]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" metricValueMax="2.2" metricValueMin="1.8" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" unit="m" value="2000.0" valueMax="2200.0" valueMin="1800.0">1800–2200 m</quantity>
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||
, but with the
|
||
<typeStatus id="54A7886DFF88380E93D2F954F745F8A6" box="[1005,1056,1769,1795]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">type</typeStatus>
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||
specimen from Beearso in the Ogaden at
|
||
<quantity id="4CE49B2AFF88380E9129F8ACF206F88E" box="[278,355,1809,1835]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.0" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" unit="m" value="600.0">600 m</quantity>
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||
, presumably in a riparian habitat (
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||
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||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BA336CFFF88380E90F8F884F080F856" blockId="29.[151,1436,1769,2035]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
|
||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF88380E90F8F884F222F8F6" bold="true" box="[199,327,1849,1875]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">Localities.</emphasis>
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||
<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF88380E916CF884F2BBF8F6" box="[339,478,1849,1875]" name="Ethiopia" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">ETHIOPIA</collectingCountry>
|
||
. Addis Ababa MCZ 126236; Ambo (Parker 1949); Beearso BMNH 95.6.11.5 (
|
||
<typeStatus id="54A7886DFF88380E90A0F8DCF269F8DE" box="[159,268,1889,1915]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
); Bonga (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E9142F8DCF173F8DE" author="Largen" box="[381,534,1889,1915]" pageId="29" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) NMZB 15653; Buyo, Dangila, Ghimbi (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E943EF8DCF7F8F8DE" author="Largen" box="[1025,1181,1889,1915]" pageId="29" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
|
||
); Gelib to Margherita (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E90A0F834F23DF806" author="Calabresi" box="[159,344,1929,1955]" pageId="29" pageNumber="65" refString="Calabresi, E. (1918) Rettili Somali raccolti fra Gelib e Margherita (Riva sinistra del Guiba) dai dott. Mazzocchi e Scarsellati, nel 1912. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), 29 (8), 122 - 124." type="journal article" year="1918">Calabresi 1918</bibRefCitation>
|
||
); Dintorni di Gondar (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E925AF834F07BF806" author="Calabresi" box="[613,798,1929,1955]" pageId="29" pageNumber="65" refString="Calabresi, E. (1925) Anfibi e rettili raccolti dal Signor Ugo Ignesti nell'Abissinia Settentrionale. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico do Storia Naturale in Milano, 64 (2), 100 - 118." type="journal article" year="1925">Calabresi 1925</bibRefCitation>
|
||
); Jimma (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E93AAF834F757F806" author="Largen" box="[917,1074,1929,1955]" pageId="29" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
|
||
); Kerio hamlet, Derba NMZB 17100; Mizan Teferi NMK 1944; Sheikh Hussein (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E92D1F80CF0DEF86E" author="Boulenger" box="[750,955,1969,1995]" pageId="29" pageNumber="64" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1896) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume III, containing the Colubridae (Opisthoglyphae and Proteroglyphae), Amblycephalidae, and Viperidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiv + 727 pp., Pls. 1 - 25." type="book chapter" year="1896" yearSuffix="a">Boulenger 1896a</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) ANSP 4692-93; Shoa Province MNHN 1904.603-04 (
|
||
<typeStatus id="54A7886DFF88380E9104F864F2C6F856" box="[315,419,2009,2035]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF88380E91F5F864F1E4F857" box="[458,641,2009,2034]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C1C4D4CFF88380E91F5F864F115F857" box="[458,624,2009,2034]" class="Reptilia" family="Typhlopidae" genus="Typhlops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acutirostris">T. acutirostris</taxonomicName>
|
||
);
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Sokoro, Zegie (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF8D4B3EFF88380E9302F864F0BDF856" author="Largen" box="[829,984,2009,2035]" pageId="29" pageNumber="66" refString="Largen, M. J. (1978) The status of the family Typhlopidae (Reptilia Serpentes) in Ethiopia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (Firenze), (N. S.) Supplemento 10, 43 - 68." type="journal article" year="1978">Largen 1978</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |