Rhinotyphlops boylei, commonly known as Boyle's beaked blind snake,Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. . p. 53. is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). The species is native to southern Africa.
Etymology The specific name, boylei, is in honor of "A. M. Boyle, Esq.", who collected the holotype.
Geographic range Indigenous to southern Africa, R. boylei is found from Damaraland in Namibia to western Botswana.
Description Dorsally, R. boylei is olive-brown, the scales light-edged. Ventrally, it is pale yellow.
Adults may attain a snout-vent length (SVL) of .
The scales are arranged in 26-28 rows around the body. There are more than 300 dorsal scales in the vertebral row.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of R. boylei is sandveld, at altitudes of .
Reproduction R. boylei is oviparous.
References
Further reading Broadley DG, 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. (Rhinotyphlops boylei, p. 59). FitzSimons V (1932). "Preliminary descriptions of new forms of South African Reptilia and Amphibia, from the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, 1930". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15 (1): 35–40. (Typhlops boylei, new species). FitzSimons V (1966). "A check-list, with syntopic keys, to the snakes of southern Africa". Ann. Transvaal Mus. 25 (3): 35–79.