Michoacán slender blind snake
| Michoacán slender blind snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Genus: | Rena |
| Species: | R. bressoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Rena bressoni (Taylor, 1939)
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The Michoacán slender blind snake (Rena bressoni), also known commonly as la culebrilla ciega de Michoacán in Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Michoacán, Mexico.[1][2]
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, bressoni, is in honor of Julio Raymond Bresson, who collected the type specimen.[5]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of R. bressoni is forest.[1]
Behavior
[edit]R. bressoni is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]R. bressoni is oviparous.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Flores-Villela, O.; Canseco-Márquez, L. (2007). "Rena bressoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T64055A12740604. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64055A12740604.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Rena bressoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ 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). (Leptotyphlops bressoni, p. 23).
- ^ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, p. 38).
Further reading
[edit]- 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 bressoni, new combination).
- Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. 1. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
- Taylor EH (1939). "On North American Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops ". Copeia 1939 (1): 1–7. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, new species).