Namibiana occidentalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Holotype: TMP 5017, collected by G. van Kerkhoff on 31 March 1912.

Type locality: “Keetmanshoop, Great Namaqualand, South-West Africa”

Leptotyphlops occidentalis — FitzSimons, 1962: 239 [original combination]
Namibiana occidentalis — Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges, 2009: 13 [subsequent combination]

Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1–50. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.

English: Western Thread Snake

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