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Species of snake For the Australian species called southern blind snake, see Anilios australis.

Southern blind snake
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Rena
Species: R. unguirostris
Binomial name
Rena unguirostris
(Boulenger, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Glauconia unguirostris
    Boulenger, 1902
  • Leptotyphlops unguirostris
    — Cei, 1993
  • Rena unguirostris
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Siagonodon unguirostris
    — Wallach et al., 2014
  • Rena unguirostris
    — Cacciali et al., 2016

The southern blind snake (Rena unguirostris) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

R. unguirostris is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Reproduction

R. unguirostris is oviparous.

References

  1. Cacciali, P.; Giraudo, A.; Scott, N.; Scrocchi, G.; Arzamendia, V. (2017). "Rena unguirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T184107A61324874. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T184107A61324874.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Rena unguirostris 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).
  4. "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

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 unguirostris, new combination).
  • Boulenger GA (1902). "List of the Fishes, Batrachians, and Reptiles collected by the late Mr. P. O. Simons in the Provinces of Mendoza and Cordova, Argentina". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Seventh Series 9 (53): 336–339. (Glauconia unguirostris, new species, p. 338).
  • Cacciali, Pier; Scott, Norman J.; Aquino Ortíz, Aida Luz; Fitzgerald, Lee A.; Smith, Paul (2016). The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico. 373 pp. (Rena unguirostris, p. 291).
Taxon identifiers
Rena unguirostris


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