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Typhlops Oppel, 1811
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174342

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	Blind Snakes [English]
		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	Typhlopinae Merrem, 1820
	Genus	Typhlops Oppel, 1811 – Blind Snakes, Blindsnakes
		Direct Children:
	Species	Typhlops agoralionis Thomas and Hedges, 2007 – La Hotte Blindsnake
	Species	Typhlops capitulatus Richmond, 1964 – Richmond's Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops eperopeus Thomas and Hedges, 2007 – Bahoruco Blindsnake
	Species	Typhlops gonavensis Richmond, 1964 – Gonave Island Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops grivensis Hoffstetter, 1946
	Species	Typhlops hectus Thomas, 1974 – Thomas' Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops jamaicensis (Shaw, 1802) – Jamaica Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops leptolepis Domínguez, Fong and Iturriaga, 2013
	Species	Typhlops lumbricalis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Earthworm Blind Snake
	Species	Typhlops oxyrhinus Domínguez and Diaz, 2011
	Species	Typhlops pachyrhinus Domínguez and Diaz, 2011
	Species	Typhlops proancylops Thomas and Hedges, 2007 – La Selle Blindsnake
	Species	Typhlops pusillus Barbour, 1914 – Hispaniola Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops rostellatus Stejneger, 1904 – Puerto Rican Wetland Blind Snake, Puerto Rican Wetland Blindsnake, Puerto Rican Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops schwartzi Thomas, 1989 – Schwartz' Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops silus Legler, 1959
	Species	Typhlops sulcatus Cope, 1868 – Sulcate Blind Snake, Sulcate Blindsnake, Island Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops sylleptor Thomas and Hedges, 2007 – Pestel Blindsnake
	Species	Typhlops syntherus Thomas, 1965 – Barahona Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops tetrathyreus Thomas, 1989 – Haitian Worm Snake
	Species	Typhlops titanops Thomas, 1989 – Titan Worm Snake

References


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

	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:	Typhlops

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

	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:	Typhlops

	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:	Typhlops

	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:	Typhlops

	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:	Typhlops

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Comments


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