Tricheilostoma is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is native to Africa. All of the member species of Tricheilostoma were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae |
| Genus: | Tricheilostoma Jan, 1860 |
Species
editThe genus Tricheilostoma contains the following six species.[1]
- Tricheilostoma bicolor (Jan, 1860) – two-colored blind snake
- Tricheilostoma broadleyi (Wallach & Hahn, 1997)
- Tricheilostoma dissimilis (Bocage, 1886) – Sudan blind snake
- Tricheilostoma greenwelli (Wallach & Boundy, 2005)
- Tricheilostoma kongoensis (J.-F. Trape, 2019)
- Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862) – Sundevall's worm snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tricheilostoma.
References
edit- ^ Genus Tricheilostoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
edit- Jan [G] (1860). Iconographie générale des Ophidiens, Première livraison. (Illustrated by Ferdinando Sordelli). Paris: De Soye et Bouchet. Index + Plates I–VI. (Tricheilostoma, new subgenus of genus Stenostoma, Index). (in French).