| Afrotyphlops | |
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| Afrotyphlops schlegelii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Afrotyphlops Broadley & Wallach, 2009 |
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Afrotyphlops is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 28 species of this genus are found in sub-Saharan Africa.1
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.1
- Angola blind snake (Afrotyphlops angolensis Bocage, 1866)
- Angolan giant blind snake (Afrotyphlops anomalus Bocage, 1873)
- Bibron's blind snake (Afrotyphlops bibronii A. Smith, 1846)
- Blanford's blind snake (Afrotyphlops blanfordii Boulenger, 1889)
- Somali giant blind snake (Afrotyphlops brevis Scortecci, 1929)
- Calabresi's blind snake (Afrotyphlops calabresii Gans & Laurent, 1965)
- Chirio's blind snake (Afrotyphlops chirioi Trape, 2019)
- Blotched blind snake (Afrotyphlops congestus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
- Wedge-snouted blind snake (Afrotyphlops cuneirostris W. Peters, 1879)
- Elegant blind snake (Afrotyphlops elegans W. Peters, 1868)
- Fornasini's blind snake (Afrotyphlops fornasinii Bianconi, 1847)
- Gierra's blind snake (Afrotyphlops gierrai Mocquard, 1897)
- Kaimosi blind snake (Afrotyphlops kaimosae Loveridge, 1935)
- Liberian blind snake (Afrotyphlops liberiensis Hallowell, 1848)
- Lined blind snake (Afrotyphlops lineolatus Jan, 1864)
- African giant blind snake (Afrotyphlops mucruso W. Peters, 1854)
- Kenyan dwarf blind snake (Afrotyphlops nanus Broadley & Wallach, 2009)
- Bicoloured blind snake (Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus Broadley & Wallach, 2000)
- Malawi blind snake (Afrotyphlops obtusus W. Peters, 1865)
- Tanga blind snake (Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus Sternfeld, 1910)
- Spotted blind snake (Afrotyphlops punctatus Leach, 1819)
- Rondo blind snake (Afrotyphlops rondoensis Loveridge, 1942)
- Afrotyphlops rouxestevae Trape, 2019
- Schlegel's giant blind snake (Afrotyphlops schlegelii Bianconi, 1847)
- Schmidt's blind snake (Afrotyphlops schmidti Laurent, 1956)
- Steinhaus's blind snake (Afrotyphlops steinhausi F. Werner, 1909)
- Liwale blind snake (Afrotyphlops tanganicanus Laurent, 1964)
- Usambara blotched blind snake (Afrotyphlops usambaricus Laurent, 1964)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Afrotyphlops.
Further reading
Further reading
- Broadley DG, Wallach V (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species". Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. (Afrotyphlops, new genus, p. 26; Afrotyphlops nanus, new species, p. 32).