MCZ Herpetology R-39798

Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus (Sternfeld, 1910)

Syntype of Typhlops platyrhynchus

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1997-10-15

Africa: Tanzania: Tanga | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-39798

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Collection: Herpetology
Catalog Number: R-39798
GUID: MCZ:Herp:R-39798

Current Identification

Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus (Sternfeld, 1910)

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Typhlopoidea Typhlopidae

Common Name(s): Tanga Worm Snake

Determiner: José Rosado on 2017-06-15

Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

Previous Identification

Typhlops platyrhynchus

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Typhlopoidea Typhlopidae

Determiner: Sternfeld

Nature of ID: type ID

Remarks: Sternfeld/1910; Identification Made Date: 1910

Sternfeld 1910, page 69, Syntype of Typhlops platyrhynchus Sternfeld, 1910, Mitt zool Mus Berlin, 1910(5):69. Other syntypes ZMB 20279, 20279A, 20279B

muse location number: ZR39798

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
tissue (95% ethanol)	good	in collection	1	History
Remarks: liver; 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)	good	in collection	1	History

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

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| original ledger entry notes: "Exch. Berlin mus."

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Continent:
Africa
Country:
Tanzania
State/Province:
Tanga
Sovereign Nation:
Tanzania, United Republic of
dwc:highergeographyID:
http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1001756

Specimens with same Higher Geography

Specimens from the same Locality

Specimens from the same Collecting Event

Specific Locality:
[no specific locality data]
Verbatim Locality:
Tanga, Tanganyika Territory
Georeference:
-5.0666670°, 39.1000000° (Error radius: 3.622mi) By: Maureen Flannery on 2005-06-06 (Source: NIMA gazetteer - GNS database.)
Datum:
WGS84
Radial of Feature:
3218.688 m
Coordinates Entered As:
decimal degrees
Collecting Source:
wild caught
Began Date / Ended Date:
1700-01-01 / 1997-10-15
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:
Martienssen