Myriopholis macrorhyncha (Geniez, 2015)

Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C. & Taylor, Dylan J., 2017, Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8), pp. 155-318 : 268

Myriopholis macrorhyncha ( Jan, 1860:pl. V, fig. 12)

Leptotyphlopid records from Ghat, Fezzan ( Scortecci 1934b, 1937, 1939; Kramer and Snurrenberger 1963) were formerly attributed to this species, although Broadley et al. (2014) recently described these specimens as a new, endemic form, M. lanzai . Myriopholis macrorhyncha has been reported from scattered records in northeastern Africa from the Nile Delta and southern Sinai south to northern Tanzania and in Asia from Israel and southeastern Turkey east to Iran, Pakistan, and doubtfully in Rajasthan, India (Sindaco et al. 2013). Although other West African records are sometimes attributed to this species (e.g., Werner 2016), records from Senegal are doubtful and those from other countries in northwestern Africa have chiefly been assigned to M. algeriensis ( Trape 2002) . Specimens form the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt ( Baha El Din 2006a) have been referred to M. macrorhyncha ( Geniez 2015) , but Broadley et al. (2014) considered these to be M. cairi .