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Leptotyphlops sundewalli

Leptotyphlops sundewalli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Leptotyphlops
Species: L. sundewalli
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops sundewalli
(Jan, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Stenostoma sundewalli
    Jan, 1862
  • Glauconia sundevalli [sic]
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Leptotyphlops sundevalli
    — , 1950
  • Leptotyphlops sundewalli
    — , Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Guinea sundewalli
    Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Tricheilostoma sundewalli
    Hedges, 2011

Leptotyphlops sundewalli, or Sundevall's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to Central Africa and West Africa.

The epithet, sundewalli, is in honor of Carl Jakob Sundevall, a Swedish zoologist.

L. sundewalli is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.



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