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Epictia  Gray, 1845
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1107509

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Stenostoma Wagler in Spix, 1824
  
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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  
                                  FamilyLeptotyphlopidae Stejneger, 1892 – Slender Blind Snakes, Thread Snakes, Threadsnakes  
                                     SubfamilyEpictinae Hedges, Adalsteinsson and Branch, 2009  
                                        TribeEpictini Hedges, Adalsteinsson and Branch, 2009  
                                           GenusEpictia Gray, 1845  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesEpictia albifrons (Wagler in Spix, 1824) – Guyana Blind Snake, Wagler's Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia albipuncta (Burmeister, 1861)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia alfredschmidti (Lehr, Wallach, Köhler and Aguilar, 2002)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia amazonica (Orejas-Miranda, 1969) – South American Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia antoniogarciai Koch, Venegas and Böhme, 2015  
                                              SpeciesEpictia ater (Taylor, 1940) – Black Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia australis (Freiberg and Orejas-Miranda, 1968) – Freiberg's Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia bakewelli Oliver, 1937 – Bakewell's Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia clinorostris Arredondo and Zaher, 2010  
                                              SpeciesEpictia collaris (Hoogmoed, 1977) – Collared Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia columbi (Klauber, 1939) – San Salvador Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia diaplocia (Orejas-Miranda, 1969) – Common Peru Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia fallax (Peters, 1858) – Black Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia goudotii (A. M. C. Duméril and Bibron, 1844) – Black Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia hobartsmithi Esqueda, Schlüter, Machado, Castelaín and Natera-Mumaw, 2015  
                                              SpeciesEpictia magnamaculata (Taylor, 1940) – Black Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia martinezi Wallach, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia melanura (Schmidt and Walker, 1943) – Dark Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961) – Rio Grande do Sul Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia pauldwyeri Wallach, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia peruviana (Orejas-Miranda, 1969) – Peru Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia phenops (Cope, 1875)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia resetari Wallach, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia rioignis Koch, Martins and Schweiger, 2019  
                                              SpeciesEpictia rubrolineata (Werner, 1901) – Red-lined Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia rufidorsa (Taylor, 1940) – Rose Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia schneideri Wallach, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia septemlineata Koch, Venegas and Böhme, 2015  
                                              SpeciesEpictia signata (Jan, 1861) – South American Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia striatula (H. M. Smith and Laufe, 1945)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia subcrotilla (Klauber, 1939) – Klauber's Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia teaguei (Orejas-Miranda, 1964) – Northern Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia tenella (Klauber, 1939) – Wagler's Blind Snake, Guyana Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia tesselata (Tschudi, 1845) – Tschudi's Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia tricolor (Orejas-Miranda and Zug, 1974) – Three-colored Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia undecimstriata (Schlegel, 1839) – Eleven-striped Blind Snake 
                                              SpeciesEpictia unicolor (Werner, 1913)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia vanwallachi Koch, Venegas and Böhme, 2015  
                                              SpeciesEpictia vellardi (Laurent, 1984)  
                                              SpeciesEpictia venegasi Koch, Santa Cruz and Cárdenas, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia vindumi Wallach, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia vonmayi Koch, Santa Cruz and Cárdenas, 2016  
                                              SpeciesEpictia wynni Wallach, 2016  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Adalsteinsson, Solny A., William R. Branch, Sébastien Trape, Laurie J. Vitt, and S. Blair Hedges   
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 2244   
  Page(s): 1-50   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
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