Bouet's worm snake

Bouet's worm snake (Myriopholis boueti) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to West Africa.

Etymology The specific name, boueti, is in honor of Georges Bouet (1869–1957), who was a French ornithologist and physician.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Leptotyphlops boueti, p. 33).

Geographic range M. boueti is found in Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Western Sahara.

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of M. boueti is savanna.

Description The holotype of M. boueti has a total length of , which includes a tail long. The diameter of the body is .Chabanaud P (1917).

Reproduction M. boueti is oviparous.

References

Further reading Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis boueti, new combination). Chabanaud P (1917). "Note complémentaire sur les Ophidiens de l'Afrique occidentale, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 23: 7–14. (Glauconia boueti, new species, pp. 9–10, Figures 1–3). (in French).