Typhlops

Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies.[1] 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.

Typhlops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Infraorder:	Scolecophidia
Superfamily:	Typhlopoidea
Family:	Typhlopidae
Subfamily:	Typhlopinae
Genus:	Typhlops Oppel, 1811
Synonyms
Typhlops Oppel, 1811 Tiphlops Rafinesque, 1815 Typhlops — Hemprich, 1820 Typhlos Bonaparte, 1831 Aspidorhynchus Fitzinger, 1843 Gerrhopilus Fitzinger, 1843 Ophthalmidion A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 Cathetorhinus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 Anilios Gray, 1845 Argyrophis Gray, 1845 Meditoria Gray, 1845 Typhlops — Gistel, 1846 Diaphorotyphlops Jan in Jan & Sordelli, 1860 Typhlops — Boulenger, 1893 Typhlops — M.A. Smith, 1922 Ophthalmidium Loveridge, 1957[1]

Species

Species[2]	Taxon author[2]	Subsp.*[2]	Common name	Geographic range
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. 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^T	(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.
^T) Type species.[1]

References

1. 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).
2. "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 [= The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a Prodromus of a Natural History of the same ]. Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (Typhlops, new genus, pp. 54-55). (in German and Latin).