Sundevall's worm snake

Sundevall's worm snake (Tricheilostoma sundewalli) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[2][3] The species is endemic to Central Africa and West Africa.

Sundevall's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Tricheilostoma
Species:	T. sundewalli
Binomial name
Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1861)
Synonyms[1]
Stenostoma sundewalli Jan, 1862 Glauconia sundevalli [sic] Boulenger, 1890 Leptotyphlops sundevalli — Villiers, 1950 Leptotyphlops sundewalli — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999 Guinea sundewalli — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009 Tricheilostoma sundewalli — Hedges, 2011

Etymology

The epithet, sundewalli, is in honor of Carl Jakob Sundevall, a Swedish zoologist.^[4]

Geographic range

T. sundewalli is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.^[1]