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Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174339

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Rhamphotyphlops Agassiz, 1846
		Typhlina Wagler, 1830
	Common Name(s):	Long-tailed Blind Snakes [English]
		Long Tailed Blindsnakes [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2019

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles
	Order	Squamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents
	Suborder	Serpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents
	Infraorder	Scolecophidia Cope, 1864
	Family	Typhlopidae Merrem, 1820 – Blind Snakes, Typical Blind Snakes, Blindsnakes
	Subfamily	Asiatyphlopinae Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin and Vidal, 2014
	Genus	Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843 – Long-tailed Blind Snakes, Long Tailed Blindsnakes
		Direct Children:
	Species	Ramphotyphlops acuticaudus (Peters, 1877) – Palau Blind Snake, Palau Blindsnake, Palau Island Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops adocetus Wynn, Reynolds, Buden, Falanruw and Lynch, 2012
	Species	Ramphotyphlops angusticeps (Peters, 1877) – Arboreal Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops becki (Tanner, 1948) – Beck's Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops bipartitus (Sauvage, 1879) – Southern New Guinea Blindsnake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops conradi (Peters, 1875) – Conrad's Worm Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops cumingii (Gray, 1845) – Cuming's Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops depressus (Peters, 1880)
	Species	Ramphotyphlops exocoeti (Boulenger, 1887) – Christmas Island Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops flaviventer (Peters, 1864) – Yellowbellied Blindsnake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops hatmaliyeb Wynn, Reynolds, Buden, Falanruw and Lynch, 2012
	Species	Ramphotyphlops lineatus (Schlegel, 1839) – Striped Blind Snake, Striped Worm Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops lorenzi (Werner, 1909)
	Species	Ramphotyphlops mansuetus (Barbour, 1921) – Small-headed Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops marxi (Wallach, 1993) – Marx's Worm Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops multilineatus (Schlegel, 1839) – Hook-nosed Blindsnake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops olivaceus (Gray, 1845) – Olive Blind Snake
	Species	Ramphotyphlops similis (Brongersma, 1934)
	Species	Ramphotyphlops suluensis (Taylor, 1918)
	Species	Ramphotyphlops supranasalis (Brongersma, 1934)
	Species	Ramphotyphlops willeyi (Boulenger, 1900)

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Roy W. McDiarmid
	Notes:	U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)
	Acquired:	2000
	Notes:	CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Long-tailed Blind Snakes[English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17
	Page(s):	iv + 73
	Publisher:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History
	Publication Place:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-911239-42-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré
	Publication Date:	1999
	Article/Chapter Title:
	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
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

	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
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	1175-5326
	Notes:	doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1
	Reference for:	Ramphotyphlops

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Comments


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