Gabon beaked snake

Roux-Estève

Gabon beaked snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Letheobia
Species:	L. caeca
Binomial name
Letheobia caeca (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)
Synonyms[1]
Onychocephalus cæcus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856 Typhlops cæcus – Jan, 1864 Letheobia cæca – Cope, 1868[2] Typhlops acutirostratus Andersson, 1916 Typhlops avakubae – Schmidt, 1923 Typhlops caecus – de Witte, 1961 Rhinotyphlops caecus – Roux-Estève, 1974; McDiarmid et al., 1999[3] Letheobia acutirostratus – Wallach, 2005 Letheobia caecus – Broadley & Wallach, 2007

The Gabon beaked snake (Letheobia caeca) is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae. It is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is known from Gabon (its type locality), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ghana. However, the identity of different populations is not fully clear.^[1]