Typhlops kaimosae Loveridge, 1935
Pitman, 1938: 44
Uthmöller, 1941a: 40
Barbour & Loveridge, 1946: 209
Roux-Estève, 1974: 47
1975b: 56
Spawls, 1978: 1
Hahn, 1980: 50
McDiarmid et al., 1999: 90
Typhlops angolensis
Roux-Estève, 1974: 47
Spawls, 1978: 2
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Broadley, Donald G.
Wallach, Van
Zootaxa
2009
2009-10-08
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100
(Loveridge)
Loveridge
1935
[151,582,151,177]
Reptilia
Typhlopidae
Afrotyphlops
Animalia
Squamata
31
32
Chordata
species
kaimosae
( Fig. 4C) Kakamegablind-snake
Typhlops kaimosae Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 79(1): 5. Type locality: “Kaimosi Forest, near Friends’ Africa Mission, Kakamega District, Nyanza Province, KenyaColony” [= Kenya], holotypeMCZ 40060, collected by A. Loveridge, 7 March 1934; Loveridge, 1936: 226, 1957b: 243, 1960: 267; Pitman, 1938: 44; Uthmöller, 1941a: 40; Barbour & Loveridge, 1946: 209; Roux-Estève, 1974: 47, 1975b: 56; Spawls, 1978: 1; Hahn, 1980: 50; McDiarmid et al.,1999: 90. Typhlops angolensis— Roux-Estève, 1974: 47(part), 1975b: 56 (part); Spawls, 1978: 2.
Description.Snout rounded, prominent. Rostral oval dorsally, moderate ventrally; frontal hexagonal; supraocular transverse, its lateral apex between preocular and ocular; eye visible beneath ocular adjacent to preocular border; nasal sulcus arising from first (right) or second (left) labial; nasal in contact with ocular inferiorly, excluding preocular from lip; SIP T-X (N-N-O-O). MSR28 with no scale row reductions; MD 390; vertebrae 215; MD/V ratio 1.81; L/D ratio 43. Dark brown above, scales lighter basally, not forming a lineate or punctate pattern, slightly lighter below. Length originally 215 mm, now 208 mm. Habitat.Lowland rainforest.
Distribution.Known only from the holotype( Fig. 12). Locality. KENYA. Kaimosi MCZ40060 ( holotypeof Typhlops kaimosaeLoveridge).
MCZ 40060
[314,1201,858,884]
MCZ
Kenya
Kaimosi
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32
1
holotype