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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusApostolepis
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Ruthven's Burrowing Snake

Apostolepis tenuis Ruthven, 1927

Also calledCobrinha-da-Terra (por)

First described in: Ruthven, Alexander G. Description of an apparently new species of Apostolepis from Bolivia.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458323.