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Epictia albipuncta
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Epictia
Species:	E. albipuncta
Binomial name
Epictia albipuncta (Burmeister, 1861)
Synonyms
Stenostoma albifrons var. albipuncta Burmeister, 1861 Stenostoma melanoterma Cope, 1862 Stenostoma (Typhlops) undecimstriatus var. albipuncta — Jan, 1863 Stenostoma flavifrons Weyenbergh in Napp, 1876 Stenostoma melanostoma Günther, 1885 (ex errore) Stenostoma melanosterna Boulenger, 1893 (ex errore) Leptotyphlops weyrauchi Orejas-Miranda, 1964 Leptotyphlops melanotermus — Orejas-Miranda, 1964 Leptotyphlops albipuncta — J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970 Leptotyphlops albifrons — Ábalos & Mischis, 1975 (part) Leptotyphlops albipunctus — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999 Epictia albipuncta — Adalsteisson et al., 2009 Epictia melanoterma — Wallach et al., 2014 Epictia weyrauchi — Wallach et al., 2014

Epictia albipuncta is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

E. albipuncta is found in Argentina, Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly southern Peru.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of E. albipuncta are grassland, shrubland, savanna, and forest.

Reproduction

E. albipuncta is oviparous.

Etymology

The specific name, weyrauchi (of the synonym Leptotyphlops weyrauchi), is in honor of German-Peruvian malacologist Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch.

References

1. ^ Cacciali, P.; Giraudo, A.; Scott, N.; Scrocchi, G.; Arzamendia, V. (2017). "Epictia albipuncta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T50956442A50956450. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T50956442A50956450.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. ^ Epictia albipuncta at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
4. "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
5. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops weyrauchi, p. 283).

Further reading

• Adalsteinson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1–50. (Epictia albipuncta, new combination).
• Burmeister H (1861). Reise durch die La Plata-Staaten, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die physische Beschaffenheit und den Culturzustand der Argentinischen Republik. Ausgrführt in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 und 1860. Zweiter Bande . Die nordwestlichen Provinzen und die Cordilleren zwischen Catamarca und Copiapó umfassend. Nebst einer systematischen Uebersicht der beobachteten Rückgratthiere. Mit einer Charte bereisten Gegenden. Halle, Germany: H.W. Schmidt. v + 538 pp. (Stenostoma albifrons var. albipuncta, new variety, pp. 527–528). (in German).
• Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Leptotyphlops albipuncta, p. 117; L. weyrauchi, p. 118 + two photographs on p. 6).
• Kretzschmar S (2006). "Revisión histórica y redescripción de Leptotyphlops albipunctus (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)". Cuadernos de Herpetologia 19: 43–56. (in Spanish).
• Orejas-Miranda BR (1964). "Dos nuevos Leptotyphlopidae de Sur America". Comunicaciones Zoológicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 8: 1–7. (Leptotyphlops weyrauchi, new species). (in Spanish).

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