Leptotyphlopidae

Trilepida macrolepis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Familia: Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamiliae (2): Epictinae – Leptotyphlopinae

Overview of genera (14): Epacrophis – Epictia – Habrophallos – Leptotyphlops – Mitophis – Myriopholis – Namibiana – Rena – Rhinoguinea – Rhinoleptus – Siagonodon – Tetracheilostoma – Tricheilostoma – Trilepida

Name

Leptotyphlopidae Stejneger, 1892: 501 [conserved name]

• Type genus: Leptotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843, by original designation.
• Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 1207 (1982: 106).

Synonyms

• Stenostomata Ritgen, 1828: 259 [original spelling]
  • Type genus: Stenostoma Wagler, 1824 [preoccupied by Stenostoma Latreille, 1810 (Coleoptera), and Stenostoma Lamarck, 1817 (Mollusca)], by subsequent designation.
• Stenostomi — Wiegmann & Ruthe, 1832: 160
• Stenostomina — Bonaparte, 1845: 377
• Stenostomatidae — Günther, 1885: 85
• Stenostomidae — Cope, 1886: 481
• Glauconiidae Boulenger, 1890: 242
  • Type genus: Glauconia Gray, 1845, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Ritgen, F.A. 1828. Versuch einer natürlichen eintheilung der Amphibien. Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum 14: 245–286. BHL
• Boulenger, G.A. 1890. Reptilia and Batrachia. pp. 1–541 in Blanford, W.T. (ed.). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis: London. BHL
• Stejneger, L. [1891] 1892. Notes on some North American snakes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 14: 501–505. BHL
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1982. Opinion 1207. Leptotyphlops and Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843 (Reptilia, Serpentes): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 39(2): 106–108. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244(1): 1–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.1 Reference page. 
• Vidal, N., Marin, J., Morini, M., Donnellan, S., Branch, W.R., Thomas, R., Vences, M., Wynn, A., Cruadd, C. & Hedges, S.B. 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6(4): 558–561. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0220 Reference page. 
• Pinto, R.R. et al. 2010. Taxonomy of the threadsnakes of the tribe Epictini (Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) in Colombia. Zootaxa 2724: 1–28. Preview
• Hedges, S.B. 2011. The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3027: 63–64. Preview PDF
• Trape, J.-F. 2014. Une espèce et un genre nouveaux de Rhinoleptini Hedges, Adalsteinsson & Branch, 2009, du Mali (Reptilia, Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae). Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France 152: 45–56. Reference page. 
• Pinto, R.R. & Fernandes, R. 2017. Morphological variation of Trilepida macrolepis (Peters 1857), with reappraisal of the taxonomic status of Rena affinis (Boulenger 1884) (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae). Zootaxa 4244(2): 246–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.2.6. Reference page. 
• Martins, A., Koch, C., Pinto, R., Folly, M., Fouquet, A. & Passos, P. 2019. From the inside out: Discovery of a new genus of threadsnakes based on anatomical and molecular data, with discussion of the leptotyphlopid hemipenial morphology. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(4): 840–863. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12316 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

dansk: Falske ormeslanger
Deutsch: Schlankblindschlangen
English: Thread Snakes
suomi: Matokäärmeet
Nederlands: Ijzerslangen
ไทย: งูเส้นด้าย

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