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Bailey's blind snake

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Bailey's blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Trilepida
Species:
T. anthracina
Binomial name
Trilepida anthracina
Bailey, 1946
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptotyphlops anthracinus
    Bailey, 1946
  • Tricheilostoma anthracinum
    Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Trilepida anthracina
    Hedges, 2011

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

  1. ^ a b "Trilepida anthracina ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ 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).
  3. ^ "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).