Liotyphlops

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[1]

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.[2][3]

Geographic range

Species of Liotyphlops are found in Central America and South America from Costa Rica to Paraguay.[1]

Taxonomy

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

Species

Species[2] Taxon author[2] Common name Geographic range[1]
Liotyphlops albirostrisT (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.

T) Type species.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b c "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).