| Island worm snake | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Typhlops |
| Species: | T. sulcatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Typhlops sulcatus Cope, 1868 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Typhlops haitiensis Richmond, 1964 | |
The island worm snake (Typhlops sulcatus) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.
Geographic range
It is endemic to southwestern Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), formerly including Navassa Island, an uninhabited island located in the Caribbean.
Conservation status
It has been rated Near Threatened. It is extirpated from Navassa Island, where the species became a casualty of human interference and feral predators, such as rodents, cats, dogs and goats that were introduced during the large-scale mining period on this small island during the 1800s.
References
- Inchaustegui, S.; Hedges, B.; Landestoy, M. (2016). "Typhlops sulcatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T178199A77338414. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T178199A77338414.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- "The Reptile Database". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1
- Schwartz, Albert and Richard Thomas. 1975. A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Typhlops sulcatus | |
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