Trilepida

Trilepida
Big-scaled blind snake (Trilepida macrolepis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily:	Epictinae
Genus:	Trilepida Hedges, 2011

Trilepida is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Trilepida are native to northern South America and Panama.

Taxonomy

All of the species in the genus Trilepida were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Species

The genus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.

• Trilepida affinis (Boulenger, 1884) – Venezuela blind snake
• Trilepida anthracina (Bailey, 1946) – Bailey's blind snake
• Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) – Brazilian blind snake
• Trilepida brevissima (Shreve, 1964) – Caqueta blind snake
• Trilepida dimidiata (Jan, 1861) – dainty blind snake
• Trilepida dugandi (Dunn, 1944) – Dugand's blind snake
• Trilepida fuliginosa (Passos, Caramaschi & Pinto, 2006)
• Trilepida guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & J. Peters, 1970) – Guayaquila blind snake
• Trilepida jani (Pinto & Fernandes, 2012)
• Trilepida joshuai (Dunn, 1944) – Joshua's blind snake
• Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955) – Amaral's blind snake
• Trilepida macrolepis (W. Peters, 1858) – big-scaled blind snake
• Trilepida nicefori (Dunn, 1946) – Santander blind snake
• Trilepida pastusa (Salazar-Valenzuela, Martins, Amador-Oyola & Torres-Carvajal, 2015)
• Trilepida salgueiroi (Amaral, 1955) – Espírito Santo blind snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trilepida.

Further reading

• Hedges, S. Blair (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63–64. (Trilepida, new genus, p. 63).