Biology:Trilepida

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Trilepida
Leptotyphlops macrolepis.jpg
Big-scaled blind snake (Trilepida macrolepis)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily: Epictinae
Genus: Trilepida
Hedges, 2011

Trilepida is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Trilepida are native to northern South America and Panama.[1]

Taxonomy

All of the species in the genus Trilepida were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Species

The genus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Trilepida acutirostris Pinto & Curcio, 2011
  • Trilepida affinis (Boulenger, 1884) – Venezuela blind snake
  • Trilepida anthracina (Bailey, 1946) – Bailey's blind snake
  • Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) – Brazilian blind snake
  • Trilepida brevissima (Shreve, 1964) – Caqueta blind snake
  • Trilepida dimidiata (Jan, 1861) – dainty blind snake
  • Trilepida dugandi (Dunn, 1944) – Dugand's blind snake
  • Trilepida fuliginosa (Passos, Caramaschi & Pinto, 2006)
  • Trilepida guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & J. Peters, 1970) – Guayaquila blind snake
  • Trilepida jani (Pinto & Fernandes, 2012)
  • Trilepida joshuai (Dunn, 1944) – Joshua's blind snake
  • Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955) – Amaral's blind snake
  • Trilepida macrolepis (W. Peters, 1858) – big-scaled blind snake
  • Trilepida nicefori (Dunn, 1946) – Santander blind snake
  • Trilepida pastusa (Salazar-Valenzuela, Martins, Amador-Oyola & Torres-Carvajal, 2015)
  • Trilepida salgueiroi (Amaral, 1955) – Espírito Santo blind snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trilepida.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Genus Trilepida at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Hedges, S. Blair (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63–64. (Trilepida, new genus, p. 63).

Wikidata ☰ Q2521718 entry