Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Leptotyphlopidae > Rhinoleptus > Rhinoleptus koniagui

Rhinoleptus koniagui (Villiers' Blind Snake; Villier's blind snakes)

Synonyms: Leptotyphlops koniagui; Typhlops koniagui

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhinoleptus is a monotypic genus created for the blind snake species, R. koniagui, found in West Africa. It is among the smallest snakes in the world. No subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhinoleptus koniagui

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba National Park II 2046878 Senegal  

Range Map

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0