Rena is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is endemic to the New World. All of the species were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
| Rena | |
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| Rena humilis, western threadsnake | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae |
| Genus: | Rena Baird & Girard, 1853 |
Species
editThe genus Rena contains the following species, which are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Rena boettgeri (F. Werner, 1899)
- Rena bressoni (Taylor, 1939) – Michoacán slender blind snake
- Rena dugesii (Bocourt, 1881) – Dugès's threadsnake
- Rena dulcis Baird & Girard, 1853 – Texas blind snake
- Rena humilis Baird & Girard, 1853 – western threadsnake
- Rena iversoni (H.M. Smith, van Breukelen, Auth & Chiszar, 1998)
- Rena klauberi Flores-Villela, E.N. Smith, Canseco-Márquez & Campbell, 2022
- Rena maxima (Loveridge, 1932) – giant blind snake
- Rena segrega (Klauber, 1939) – Trans-Pecos blind snake
- Rena unguirostris (Boulenger, 1902) – southern blind snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rena.
Etymologies
editThe specific name, dugesii, is in honor of Mexican zoologist Alfredo Dugès.[2]
The specific name, iversoni, is in honor of American herpetologist John B. Iverson.[3]
References
edit- ^ Genus Rena at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Species Rena dugesii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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 dulcis iversoni, p. 131).
Further reading
edit- Baird SF, Girard C (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Rena, new genus, p. 142; Rena dulcis, new species, pp. 142–143; Rena humilis, new species, p. 143).