Amaral's blind snake
Trilepida koppesi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Trilepida
Species:
T. koppesi
Binomial name
Trilepida koppesi
Amaral, 1955
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptotyphlops koppesi
    Amaral, 1955
  • Tricheilostoma koppesi
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Trilepida koppesi
    — Hedges, 2011

Amaral's blind snake (Trilepida koppesi) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3] The species is native to South America.

Etymology

The specific name, koppesi, is in honor of S.J. Koppes, who collected the holotype in 1934.[4]

Geographic range

Trilepida koppesi is endemic to Brazil, where it is found in the Distrito Federal and in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Goiás, and Mato Grosso.[1]

Reproduction

Trilepida koppesi is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Trilepida koppesi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ↑ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops koppesi, p. 145).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Tricheilostoma koppesi, new combination).
  • Amaral A (1955). "Contribução ao conhecimento dos ofídios neotrópicos: 14. Descrição de duas espécies de "cobra-cega" (fam. Leptotyphlopidae) [= Contribution to the knowledge of the neotropical snakes: 14. Description of two species of "blindsnake" (family Leptotyphlopidae)]". Memórias do Instituto Butantan, São Paulo 26: 203-205. (Leptotyphlops koppesi, new species). (in Portuguese).
  • Hedges SB (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63-64. (Trilepida koppesi, new combination, p. 63).


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