Zenker's worm snake (Letheobia zenkeri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. The species is native to Central Africa.
Etymology The specific name, zenkeri, is in honor of German botanist Georg August Zenker.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Typhlops zenkeri, p. 293).
Geographic range L. zenkeri is endemic to Cameroon.
Description L. zenkeri may attain a total length (including tail) of . It has 18 scales around the body, and is "colourless" (farblos, in German).Sternfeld (1908).Boulenger (1914).
Reproduction L. zenkeri is oviparous.
References
Further reading Boulenger GA (1914). "Descriptions of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eighth Series 14: 482–485. (Typhlops vermis, new species, pp. 482–483). Chirio, Laurent; Lebreton, Matthew (2007). Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 688 pp. . (Rhinotyphlos zenkeri, new combination). (in French). Hedges, S. Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie; Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. (Letheobia zenkeri, new combination, p. 30). Sternfeld R (1908). "Neue und ungenügend bekannte afrikanische Schlangen". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 92–95. (Typhlops zenkeri, new species, p. 92). (in German).