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Letheobia  Cope, 1868
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1116035

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2019   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderScolecophidia Cope, 1864  
                                  FamilyTyphlopidae Merrem, 1820 – Blind Snakes, Typical Blind Snakes, Blindsnakes  
                                     SubfamilyAfrotyphlopinae Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin and Vidal, 2014  
                                        GenusLetheobia Cope, 1868  
    Direct Children:  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia acutirostrata (Andersson, 1916)  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia akagerae Dehling, Hinkel, Ensikat, Babilon and Fischer, 2018 – Akagera Gracile Blind Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia angeli (Guibé, 1952) – Mann's Worm Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia caeca (A. H. A. Duméril, 1856) – Gabon Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia coecatus (Jan, 1864)  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia crossii (Boulenger, 1893) – Cross' Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia debilis (Joger, 1990) – Feeble Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia decorosa (Buchholz and Peters, 1875) – Cameroon Worm Snake, Cameroon Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia episcopus (Franzen and Wallach, 2002)  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia erythraea (Scortecci, 1928) – Eritrean Blind Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia feae (Boulenger, 1906) – St. Thomas Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia gracilis (Sternfeld, 1910) – Urungu Beaked Snake, Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia graueri (Sternfeld, 1912) – Sternfeld's Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia jubana Broadley and Wallach, 2007  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia kibarae (de Witte, 1953) – Upemba Gracile Blind-snake, Katanga Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia largeni Broadley and Wallach, 2007 – Largen's Blind-snake, Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia leucosticta (Boulenger, 1898) – Liberia Worm Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia logonensis Trape, 2019  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia lumbriciformis (Peters, 1874) – Zanzibar Gracile Blind-snake, Wormlike Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia manni (Loveridge, 1941) – Mann's Worm Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia mbeerensis Malonza, Bauer and Ngwava, 2016  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia newtoni (Bocage, 1890)  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia pallida Cope, 1868 – Zanzibar Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia pauwelsi Wallach, 2005  
                                           SpeciesLetheobia pembana Broadley and Wallach, 2007 – Pemba gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia praeocularis (Stejneger, 1894) – Léopoldville Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia rufescens (Chabanaud, 1916) – Oubangui Gracile Blind-snake, Haut-Oubangui Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia simoni (Boettger, 1879) – Israeli Worm Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia somalica (Boulenger, 1895) – Ethiopian Blind Snake, Highland Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia stejnegeri (Loveridge, 1931) – Stejneger's Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia sudanensis (Schmidt, 1923) – Sudan Beaked Snake, Garamba Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia swahilica Broadley and Wallach, 2007 – Swahili Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia toritensis Broadley and Wallach, 2007 – Torit Gracile Blind-snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia uluguruensis (Barbour and Loveridge, 1928) – Uluguru Gracile Blind-snake, Uluguri Worm Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia weidholzi Wallach and Gemel, 2018 – Weidholz's Pink Blindsnake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia wittei (Roux-Estève, 1974) – De Witte's Gracile Blind-snake, Witte's Beaked Snake 
                                           SpeciesLetheobia zenkeri (Sternfeld, 1908) – Zenker's Worm Snake 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pyron, Robert Alexander, and Van Wallach   
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3829, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-81   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1   
  Reference for: Letheobia   
       

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