Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies.[1] Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops, Amerotyphlops, Anilios, Antillotyphlops, Argyrophis, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Letheobia, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, and Xerotyphlops.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
| Superfamily: | Typhlopoidea |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Typhlopinae |
| Genus: | Typhlops Oppel, 1811 |
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Species
edit| Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name | Geographic range |
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| T. agoralionis | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | la Hotte blind snake | |
| T. capitulatus | Richmond, 1964 | 0 | Haitian pale-lipped blind snake, Richmond's worm snake | |
| T. eperopeus | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | Bahoruco blind snake | |
| T. gonavensis | Richmond, 1964 | 0 | Gonâve Island worm snake | |
| T. guadeloupensis | Richmond, 1966 | 0 | Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake | |
| T. hectus | Thomas, 1974 | 0 | Tiburon Peninsula blind snake, Thomas's worm snake | |
| T. jamaicensis | (Shaw, 1802) | 0 | Jamaican blind snake, Jamaica worm snake | |
| T. leptolepis | Domínguez, Fong & Iturriaga, 2013 | 0 | ||
| T. lumbricalisT | (Linnaeus, 1758) | 0 | earthworm blind snake | |
| T. oxyrhinus | Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 | 0 | ||
| T. pachyrhinus | Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 | 0 | ||
| T. proancylops | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | La Selle blind snake | |
| T. pusillus | Barbour, 1914 | 0 | Hispaniola worm snake | |
| T. rostellatus | Stejneger, 1904 | 0 | Puerto Rican worm snake | |
| T. schwartzi | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | Schwartz's worm snake | |
| T. silus | Legler, 1959 | 0 | ||
| T. sulcatus | Cope, 1868 | 0 | island worm snake | |
| T. sylleptor | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | Pestel blind snake | |
| T. syntherus | Thomas, 1965 | 0 | Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake | |
| T. tetrathyreus | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | Haitian worm snake | |
| T. titanops | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | titan worm snake |
*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type species.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
- ^ a b c "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
External links
edit- Typhlops at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 August 2007.
Further reading
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- Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Amerotyphlops, Antillotyphlops, Asiatyphlops, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, Xerotyphlops, new genera).
- Oppel M (1811). Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben [= The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a Prodromus of a Natural History of the same ]. Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (Typhlops, new genus, pp. 54–55). (in German and Latin).