Santander blind snake
| Santander 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: | Trilepida |
| Species: | T. nicefori
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| Binomial name | |
| Trilepida nicefori Dunn, 1946
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The Santander blind snake (Trilepida nicefori) is a species of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4]
Etymology
The specific name, nicefori, is in honor of missionary Brother Nicéforo María (1888–1980), born Antoine Rouhaire in France, who established a natural history museum in Medellin, Colombia.[5]
Geographic range
T. nicefori is known only from Santander Department, Colombia.[2]
References
- ^ Caicedo, J., Calderón, M., Ines Hladki, A., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Urbina, N. & Wallach, V. 2015. Trilepida nicefori. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T178499A44954886. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T178499A44954886.en. Downloaded on 24 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Trilepida nicefori ". 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.
- ^ 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 nicefori, p. 190).
Further reading
- Dunn ER (1946). "A New Snake from the Eastern Andes of Colombia". Caldasia 4 (17): 121-122. (Leptotyphlops nicefori, new species).