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Rhinotyphlops  Fitzinger, 1843
Taxonomic Serial No.: 634397

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2019   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderScolecophidia Cope, 1864  
                                  FamilyTyphlopidae Merrem, 1820 – Blind Snakes, Typical Blind Snakes, Blindsnakes  
                                     SubfamilyAfrotyphlopinae Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin and Vidal, 2014  
                                        GenusRhinotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus (Boulenger, 1912) – Somali Blind-snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops boylei (Fitzsimons, 1932) – Boyle's Beaked Blind Snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops lalandei (Schlegel, 1839) – Delalande's Beaked Blind Snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops leucocephalus (Parker, 1930) – White-headed Beaked Snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops schinzi (Boettger, 1887) – Schinz's Beaked Blind Snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops scortecci (Gans and Laurent, 1965) – Scortecci's Blind-snake 
                                           Species Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus (Peters, 1878) – Kenya Beaked Snake, Yellow-striped Blind-snake 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré  
  Publication Date: 1999   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xi + 511   
  Publisher: The Herpetologists' League   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-893777-01-4, 1-893777-00-6  
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  Reference for: Rhinotyphlops   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pyron, Robert Alexander, and Van Wallach  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3829, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-81   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1   
  Reference for: Rhinotyphlops   
       

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