Letheobia caeca ( Duméril, 1856 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 127

Letheobia caeca ( Duméril, 1856)

Figure 31C

Onychocephalus caecus Duméril, 1856: 462 . Type locality: “ Gabon ”.

Letheobia caeca ( Duméril, 1856) : Cope 1868: 322.

Rhinotyphlops caecus ( Duméril, 1856) : Roux-Estève 1974: 210.

Distribution. It occurs from Nigeria and Cameroon to Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Bioko ( Roux-Estève 1974) and in Río Muni (North-west), likely at Bata ( Roux-Estève 1974), and at Monte Alén National Park as L. wittei ( Lasso et al. 2002) ( Map 36C ).

Comments. The specimen identified as L. wittei and recorded by Lasso et al. (2002), currently housed in the EBD collection, was re-identified as L. caeca .

Specimens examined. One specimen. Río Muni: Monte Alén National Park (in the EBD collection, without EBD number).

Figures

FIGURE 31. From left to right: lateral, dorsal and ventral views of the head of: Afrotyphlops congestus “blotched phenotype” (A) (MNCN 23354), Afrotyphlops congestus “striped phenotype” (B) (EBD 31531), and Letheobia caeca (C) (in the EBD collection, without EBD number). Photos: AS-V.

MAPS 36 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Afrotyphlops congestus; (B) Indotyphlops braminus; (C) Letheobia caeca (question mark represents an imprecise record).