Liotyphlops
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Liotyphlops | |
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pale-headed blindsnake (Liotyphlops beui) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Anomalepididae |
Genus: | Liotyphlops W. Peters, 1881 |
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Liotyphlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Anomalepididae. The genus is native to Central America and South America. It contains 13 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]
Species
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
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b c "Liotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ 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).Error: "Q3010074" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.