Trilepida
| Trilepida | |
|---|---|
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| Big-scaled blind snake (Trilepida macrolepis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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[edit]
Species in the genus Trilepida are native to northern South America and Panama.[1]
Taxonomy[edit]
All of the species in the genus Trilepida were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b Genus Trilepida at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading[edit]
- 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).