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Genus of snakes

Liotyphlops
Liotyphlops ternetzii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Anomalepididae
Genus: Liotyphlops
W. Peters, 1881
Synonyms
  • Rhinotyphlops
    W. Peters, 1857
  • Liotyphlops
    W. Peters, 1881

Liotyphlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Anomalepididae. The genus is native to Central America and South America. It contains 12 species that are recognized as being valid.

Geographic range

Species of Liotyphlops are found in Central America and South America from Costa Rica to Paraguay.

Taxonomy

Head scutellation characters are certainly useful for identifications based on external morphology. Liotyphlops fossorial, cryptozonic habits, and nocturnal activity.

Species

Species Taxon author Common name Geographic range
Liotyphlops albirostris (W. Peters, 1857) Southern Central America, including Costa Rica and Panama, and northern South America in Colombia, Ecuador and north-central Venezuela. Also found on the island of Curaçao.
Liotyphlops anops (Cope, 1899) Colombia in the departments of Meta, Santander and Cundinamarca.
Liotyphlops argaleus Dixon & Kofron, 1984 Colombia: Cundinamarca Department.
Liotyphlops bondensis (Griffin, 1916) Armando's blindsnake Colombia
Liotyphlops caissara Centeno, Sawaya & Germano, 2010 Brazil
Liotyphlops haadi Silva-Haad, Franco & Maldonado, 2008 Colombia
Liotyphlops palauophis Marra Santos, 2023 Colombia
Liotyphlops schubarti Vanzolini, 1948 Brazil: Pirassununga in São Paulo.
Liotyphlops taylori Marra-Santos & Reis, 2018 Brazil in Mato Grosso.
Liotyphlops ternetzii (Boulenger, 1896) Brazil (Pará, Goiás, São Paulo and Mato Grosso), Paraguay and Uruguay.
Liotyphlops trefauti Freire, Caramasche & Suzart Argôlo, 2007 Brazil.
Liotyphlops wilderi (Garman, 1883) Brazil in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.

) Type species.

Nota bene: A taxon author in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Liotyphlops.

References

  1. ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ "Liotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  3. Genus Liotyphlops at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Peters W (1881). "Einige herpetologische Mittheilungen. 1. Uebersicht der zu den Familien der Typhlopes und Stenostomi gehörigen Gattungen oder Untergattungen ". Sitzungberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881 (4): 69–71. (Liotyphlops, new genus, p. 69). (in German).
  • Freiberg M (1882). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Liotyphlops, pp. 84, 86 + drawing of head scalation on p. 84).
  • Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Liotyphlops, p. 311).
Taxon identifiers
Liotyphlops
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