Siagonodon
| Siagonodon | |
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| Siagonodon borrichianus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae |
| Genus: | Siagonodon W. Peters, 1881 |
Siagonodon is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus contains five species, all of which were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species
[edit]The genus Siagonodon contains the following species.[1]
- Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbøl, 1923) – Degerbol's blind snake
- Siagonodon cupinensis (J.R. Bailey & A.L. Carvalho, 1946) – Mato Grosso blind snake
- Siagonodon exiguum Martins, Folly, Nunes-Ferreira, Garcia da Silva, Koch, Fouquet, Machado, Lopes, Pinto, Rodrigues, & Passos, 2023
- Siagonodon septemstriatus (J. Schneider, 1801) – seven-striped blind snake
References
[edit]- ^ Genus Siagonodon at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Peters W (1881). "Einige herpetologische Mittheilungen: 1. Uebersicht der zu den Familien der Typhlopes und Stenostomi gehörigen Gattungen oder Untergattungen ". Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881 (4): 69–71. (Siagonodon, new genus, p. 71). (in German).