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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
       
 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  
                                     SubfamilyTyphlopinae Merrem, 1820  
                                        GenusTyphlops 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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