San Salvador blind snake
| San Salvador 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: | Epictia |
| Species: | E. columbi
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| Binomial name | |
| Epictia columbi (Klauber, 1939)
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The San Salvador blind snake (Epictia columbi) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4]
Etymology
The specific name, columbi, is in honor of Christopher Columbus.[5]
Geographic range
It is endemic to San Salvador Island in The Bahamas.[6]
References
- ^ Buckner, S. 2016. Epictia columbi (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T50956478A115405981. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T50956478A50956486.en. Downloaded on 24 July 2018.
- ^ "Epictia columbi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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 ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops columbi, p. 57).
- ^ Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Leptotyphlops columbi, p. 188).
Further reading
- Klauber LM (1939). "Three New Worm Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9 (14): 59-65. (Leptotyphlops columbi, new species, pp. 62–64 + Figures 3a & 3b on p. 65).