Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Typhlopidae > Afrotyphlops > Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus

Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus (Tanga Worm Snake)

Synonyms: Madatyphlops platyrhynchus; Typhlops platyrhynchus

Wikipedia Abstract

Typhlops platyrhynchus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.
View Wikipedia Record: Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania Yes

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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