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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
| Superfamily: | Typhlopoidea |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Typhlopinae |
| Genus: | Typhlops Oppel, 1811 |
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Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies. Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops, Amerotyphlops, Anilios, Antillotyphlops, Argyrophis, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Letheobia, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, and Xerotyphlops.
Species
| Species | Taxon author | Subsp.* | Common name | Geographic range |
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| T. agoralionis | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | la Hotte blind snake | |
| T. capitulatus | Richmond, 1964 | 0 | Haitian pale-lipped blind snake, Richmond's worm snake | |
| T. eperopeus | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | Bahoruco blind snake | |
| T. gonavensis | Richmond, 1964 | 0 | Gonâve Island worm snake | |
| T. guadeloupensis | Richmond, 1966 | 0 | Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake | |
| T. hectus | Thomas, 1974 | 0 | Tiburon Peninsula blind snake, Thomas's worm snake | |
| T. jamaicensis | (Shaw, 1802) | 0 | Jamaican blind snake, Jamaica worm snake | |
| T. leptolepis | Domínguez, Fong & Iturriaga, 2013 | 0 | ||
| T. lumbricalis | (Linnaeus, 1758) | 0 | earthworm blind snake | |
| T. oxyrhinus | Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 | 0 | ||
| T. pachyrhinus | Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 | 0 | ||
| T. proancylops | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | La Selle blind snake | |
| T. pusillus | Barbour, 1914 | 0 | Hispaniola worm snake | |
| T. rostellatus | Stejneger, 1904 | 0 | Puerto Rican worm snake | |
| T. schwartzi | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | Schwartz's worm snake | |
| T. silus | Legler, 1959 | 0 | ||
| T. sulcatus | Cope, 1868 | 0 | island worm snake | |
| T. sylleptor | Thomas & Hedges, 2007 | 0 | Pestel blind snake | |
| T. syntherus | Thomas, 1965 | 0 | Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake | |
| T. tetrathyreus | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | Haitian worm snake | |
| T. titanops | Thomas, 1989 | 0 | titan worm snake |
*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
) Type species.
References
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
External links
- Typhlops at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 August 2007.
Further reading
- Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Amerotyphlops, Antillotyphlops, Asiatyphlops, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, Xerotyphlops, new genera).
- Oppel M (1811). Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben . Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (Typhlops, new genus, pp. 54–55). (in German and Latin).
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