Acutotyphlops

' Acutotyphlops is a genus of blind snakes found in the Philippines, eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Currently, five species are recognized.[2] The most recently described species was in 2007.

Acutotyphlops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Acutotyphlops Wallach, 1995[1]

Geographic range

Found in the Philippines, eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.[1]

Species

Species[2]	Taxon author[2]	Common name	Geographic range[1]
Acutotyphlops banaorum	Wallach et al., 2007		Kalinga Province of Luzon, the Philippines.
Acutotyphlops infralabialis	(Waite, 1918)		The Solomon Islands: Bougainville, New Georgia, Malaita and Guadalcanal.
Acutotyphlops kunuaensis^T	Wallach, 1995		The island of Bougainville (endemic).
Acutotyphlops solomonis	(Parker, 1939)		Eastern Papua New Guinea and on the island of Bougainville.
Acutotyphlops subocularis	(Waite, 1897)		Umboi Island, New Britain, Duke of York Island, New Ireland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Malaita, New Georgia and Nggela).

^T) Type species.[1]

Taxonomy

In 2007, a new species was described that is found in the Philippines—more than 4.000 km from the other species of the genus.[3]

References

1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
2. "Acutotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
3. Wallach, V.; Brown, Diesmos; Gee (2007). "An Enigmatic New Species of Blind Snake from Luzon Island, Northern Philippines, with a Synopsis of the Genus Acutotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Journal of Herpetology. 41 (4): 690–702. doi:10.1670/206-5.1.

External links

• Acutotyphlops at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 August 2007.