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Letheobia coecatus

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ46074088 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ghana beaked blind snake (Letheobia coecatus) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. It is endemic to West Africa and is known from Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Guinea.

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The public source identifies “Letheobia coecatus” as species of reptile. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Letheobia, coecatus and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Letheobia, coecatus and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q46074088. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Letheobia coecatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.