Liotyphlops

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Familia: Anomalepididae
Genus: Liotyphlops
Species (10): L. albirostris – L. anops – L. argaleus – L. beui – L. caissara – L. haadi – L. schubarti – L. ternetzii – L. trefauti – L. wilderi
Name

Liotyphlops Peters, 1881: 69 [replacement name]

Type species: Rhinotyphlops albirostris Peters, 1858, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Rhinotyphlops Peters, 1858: 402 [preoccupied by Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843]

Type species: Rhinotyphlops albirostris Peters, 1858, by monotypy.
References
Primary references

Peters, W.C.H. 1881. Einige herpetologische Mittheilungen. 1. Uebersicht der zu den Familien der Typhlopes und Stenostomi gehörigen Gattungen oder Untergattungen. 2. Ueber eine neue Art von Tachydromus aus dem Amurlande. 3. Ueber die von Herrn Dr. Finsch aus Polynesien gesandten Reptilien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881(4): 69–72.

Additional references

Dixon, J.R. & Kofron, C.P. [1983] 1984. The Central and South American Anomalepid Snakes of the Genus Liotyphlops. Amphibia-Reptilia 4(2–4): 241–264. DOI: 10.1163/156853883X00120 Reference page.
Freire, E.M.X., Caramaschi, U. & Argôlo, A.J.S. 2007. A new species of Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 1393: 19–26. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Silva-Haad, J.J., Franco, F.L. & Maldonado, J. 2008. Una nueva especie de Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes, Scolecophidia, Anomalepidae) del sur de la Amazonia Colombiana (In Spanish). Biota Colombiana 9(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.21068/bc.v9i2.205 Reference page.
Centeno, F.C., Sawaya, R.J. & Germano, V.J. 2010. A New Species of Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Atlantic Coastal Forest in Southeastern Brazil. Herpetologica 66(1): 86–91. DOI: 10.1655/08-079.1 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Liotyphlops . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 September 2018.

Liotyphlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Anomalepididae. The genus is native to Central America and South America. It contains 12 species that are recognized as being valid.[2][3]

Geographic range

Species of Liotyphlops are found in Central America and South America from Costa Rica to Paraguay.[1]
Species

Species[2]	Taxon author[2]	Common name	Geographic range[1]
Liotyphlops albirostrisT	(W. Peters, 1857)		Southern Central America, including Costa Rica and Panama, and northern South America in Colombia, Ecuador and north-central Venezuela. Also found on the island of Curaçao.
Liotyphlops anops	(Cope, 1899)		Colombia in the departments of Meta, Santander and Cundinamarca.
Liotyphlops argaleus	Dixon & Kofron, 1984		Colombia: Cundinamarca Department.
Liotyphlops beui	(Amaral, 1924)		Brazil (from Pará to Mato Grosso), eastern Paraguay and Argentina.
Liotyphlops schubarti	Vanzolini, 1948		Brazil: Pirassununga in São Paulo.
Liotyphlops sousa	Marra-Santos & Reis, 2018		Brazil in Santa Catarina.
Liotyphlops taylori	Marra-Santos & Reis, 2018		Brazil in Mato Grosso.
Liotyphlops ternetzii	(Boulenger, 1896)		Brazil (Pará, Goiás, São Paulo and Mato Grosso), Paraguay and Uruguay.
Liotyphlops wilderi	(Garman, 1883)		Brazil in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.

T) Type species.[1]

In the 21st century three additional new species have been described.[3]

Liotyphlops caissara Centeno, Sawaya & Germano, 2010
Liotyphlops haadi Silva-Haad, Franco & Maldonado, 2008
Liotyphlops trefauti Freire, Caramasche & Suzart Argôlo, 2007

Nota bene: A taxon author in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Liotyphlops.
References

McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
"Liotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

Genus Liotyphlops at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Peters W (1881). "Einige herpetologische Mittheilungen. 1. Uebersicht der zu den Familien der Typhlopes und Stenostomi gehörigen Gattungen oder Untergattungen ". Sitzungberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881 (4): 69-71. (Liotyphlops, new genus, p. 69). (in German).
Freiberg M (1882). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Liotyphlops, pp. 84, 86 + drawing of head scalation on p. 84).
Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Liotyphlops, p. 311).