Trilepida affinis

Taxonavigation edit

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

Holotype: BMNH 75.2.26.4 (now BMNH 1946.1.11.16), adult ♂.

Type locality: “province [=state] of Tachira, Venezuela.”

Stenostoma affine Boulenger, 1884: 396 [original combination]
Glauconia affinis — Boulenger, 1893: 62 [name combination]
Leptotyphlops affinis — McDiarmid, Campbell & Tour, 1999: 19 [name combination]
Rena affinis — Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges, 2009: 10 [name combination]
Trilepida affinis — Nattera-Mummak, González & Fernández, 2015: 296–297 [name combination]

Boulenger, G.A. 1884. Descriptions of new species of reptiles and batrachians in the British Museum. Part Il. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 13: 396–398. BHL

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.