MCZ Herpetology R-21007

Afrotyphlops fornasinii (Bianconi, 1847)

Date Collected:

Current Identification

Afrotyphlops fornasinii (Bianconi, 1847)

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Typhlopoidea Typhlopidae

Common Name(s): Fornasini's Blind Snake

Determiner: José Rosado on 2017-06-15

Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Previous Identifications

Typhlops mossambicus

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Typhlopoidea Typhlopidae

Determiner: [no agent data]

Nature of ID: type ID

Typhlops fornasinii

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Typhlopoidea Typhlopidae

Determiner: Bianconii

Nature of ID: migration

Remarks: Bianconii/1847

Peters 1854, page 621, Syntype of Onychocephalus mossambicus Peters, 1854 types not specified in text; however, collection information matches

Barbour and Loveridge 1929, page 310, Voucher of Typhlops mossambicus

Shows Publication: Peters 1854 Description: Bericht über die Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1854

Shows Publication: Barbour and Loveridge 1929 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXIX no. 10

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
tissue (95% ethanol)	good	in collection	1	History
Remarks: kidney/muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-10-29
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa determined date=2021-10-21 determined by=Rina Morisawa
whole animal (ethanol)	fair	in collection	1	History (3)

Attribute	Value	Determination	On
associated grant	Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR)	By: Rina Morisawa	2021-10-29

Specific Locality:
[no specific locality data]
Verbatim Locality:
Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa
Georeference:
-18.665695°, 35.5295620° (Error radius: 1064729m) By: Cleo Falvey on 2021-01-30 (Source: GEOLocate)
Datum:
WGS84
Coordinates Entered As:
decimal degrees
Collecting Source:
wild caught
Began Date / Ended Date:
1700-01-01 / 1997-11-13
Verbatim Date:
[no verbatim date data]
Collecting Event Remarks:
End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
Collector:
Peters