Bailey's blind snake
Appearance
Bailey's blind snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
Genus: | Trilepida |
Species: | T. anthracina
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Binomial name | |
Trilepida anthracina Bailey, 1946
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Bailey's blind snake (Trilepida anthracina) is a species of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to northwestern South America.
Geographic range
T. anthracina is found in Colombia and Ecuador.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Trilepida anthracina ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
Further reading
- 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. (Tricheilostoma anthracinum, new combination).
- Bailey JR (1946). "Leptotyphlops anthracinus, a new blind snake from eastern Ecuador". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (492): 1-5. (Leptotyphlops anthracinus, new species).
- Hedges SB (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Trilepida anthracina, new combination, p. 63).