The Mato Grosso blind snake (Siagonodon cupinensis) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4][2] The species is native to northeastern South America.
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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: | Siagonodon |
| Species: | S. cupinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Siagonodon cupinensis Bailey & A.L. Carvalho, 1946
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Geographic range
editS. cupinensis is found in the Brazilian states of Amapá, Mato Grosso, and Pará, and in Suriname.[1][2]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitat of S. cupinensis is savanna.[1]
Description
editS. cupinensis is uniformly yellowish, not striped. It has on average 270 middorsal scales from rostral to tail tip.[2]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Ouboter P (2019). "Siagonodon cupinensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T56050441A66750248.en. Accessed on 05 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Siagonodon cupinensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ "Siagonodon cupinensis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
Further reading
edit- 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. (Siagonodon cupinensis, new combination).
- Bailey JR, Carvalho AL (1946). "A new Leptotyphlops from Mato Grosso, with notes on Leptotyphlops tenella Klauber". Boletim do Museu Nacional do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Nova Série, Zoologia 52: 1–7. (Leptotyphlops cupinensis, new species).
- Francisco BCS, Pinto RR, Fernandes DS (2018). "Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Siagonodon Peters, 1881, with a Report on Morphological Variation in Siagonodon cupinensis (Bailey and Carvalho, 1946) (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)". Copeia 106 (2): 321–328.