Afrotyphlops elegans

Familia: Typhlopidae
Subfamilia: Afrotyphlopinae
Genus: Afrotyphlops
Species:

• Afrotyphlops elegans (Peters, 1868)

Syntypes (3): ZMB 6066 and ZZSDa–b [lost fide Bauer et al. (1995: 79)], collected by H.Horn on 1865.

Type locality: “Prinzens-insel (Ilha de Principe) an der Westküste Africa's”.

• Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) elegans Peters, 1868: 450 [original combination]
• Afrotyphlops elegans — Broadley & Wallach, 2009: 26 [subsequent combination]

• Peters, W.C.H. 1868. Über eine neue Nagergattung, Chiropodomys penicullatus, sowie über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 448–461. BHL
• Broadley, D.G. & Wallach, V. 2009. A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species. Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Afrotyphlops elegans. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 January 2019.