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Michoacán slender blind snake
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Rena
Species:	R. bressoni
Binomial name
Rena bressoni (Taylor, 1939)
Synonyms
Leptotyphlops bressoni Taylor, 1939 Rena bressoni — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009

The Michoacán slender blind snake (Rena bressoni), also known commonly as la culebrilla ciega de Michoacán in Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to Michoacán, Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, bressoni, is in honor of Julio Raymond Bresson, who collected the type specimen.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. bressoni is forest.

Behavior

R. bressoni is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

R. bressoni is oviparous.

References

1. ^ Flores-Villela, O.; Canseco-Márquez, L. (2007). "Rena bressoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T64055A12740604. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64055A12740604.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ Rena bressoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. 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. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Leptotyphlops bressoni, p. 23).
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 bressoni, p. 38).

Further reading

• Adalsteinsson 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. (Rena bressoni, new combination).
• Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. 1. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
• Taylor EH (1939). "On North American Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops ". Copeia 1939 (1): 1–7. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, new species).

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• IUCN Red List data deficient species
• Rena (genus)
• Snakes of North America
• Endemic reptiles of Mexico
• Fauna of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
• Reptiles described in 1939
• Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor
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