Myriopholis

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: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Myriopholis
Species: M. adleri – M. albiventer – M. algeriensis – M. blanfordi – M. boueti – M. braccianii – M. burii – M. cairi – M. dissimilis – M. erythraeus – M. filiformis – M. ionidesi – M. longicauda – M. macrorhyncha – M. macrura – M. narirostris – M. natatrix – M. nursii – M. parkeri – M. perreti – M. phillipsi – M. rouxestevae – M. tanae – M. wilsoni – M. yemenica
Name

Myriopholis Hedges, Adalsteinsson, & Branch, 2009 [Tribe Myriopholin]

Type species: Stenostoma longicaudum Peters, 1854:621.
Synonyms

Ramphostoma Jan in Jan and Sordelli, 1860. Type species Stenostoma macrorhynchum Jan, 1860, by monotypy. [Preoccupied by Ramphostoma Wagler (1830: 353) as corrected from Rhamphostoma by Wagler (1830: 141): Crocodilia.]
Rhamphostoma Boulenger, 1893: 59. [Replacement name for Ramphostoma Jan, 1861. Preoccupied by Rhamphostoma Agassiz, 1847, an unjustified emendation of Ramphostoma Wagler, 1830: Crocodilia.]

References

Solny A. Adalsteinsson, William R. Branch , Sébastien Trape , Laurie J. Vitt & S. Blair Hedges 2009: Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata) Zootaxa, 2244: 1–50. pdf

Myriopholis is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[1] Most of the species were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species

The genus contains the following species:[1]

Myriopholis adleri (Hahn & Wallach, 1998) – Adler's worm snake
Myriopholis albiventer (Hallermann & Rödel, 1995) – white-bellied worm snake
Myriopholis algeriensis (Jacquet, 1896)
Myriopholis blanfordi (Boulenger, 1890) – Sindh threadsnake, Blanford's worm snake
Myriopholis boueti (Chabanaud, 1917) – Bouet's worm snake
Myriopholis braccianii (Scortecci, 1929) – Scortecci's blind snake, Bracciani's worm snake
Myriopholis burii (Boulenger, 1905) – Arabian blind snake, Bury's worm snake
Myriopholis cairi (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) – Cairo blind snake
Myriopholis erythraeus (Scortecci, 1929) – Eritrean worm snake
Myriopholis filiformis (Boulenger, 1899) – Socotra Island blind snake
Myriopholis ionidesi (Broadley & Wallach, 2007) – Ionides's worm snake
Myriopholis lanzai Broadley, Wade & Wallach, 2014
Myriopholis longicauda (W. Peters, 1854) – long-tailed threadsnake
Myriopholis macrorhyncha (Jan, 1860) – hook-snouted worm snake, long-nosed worm snake
Myriopholis macrura (Boulenger, 1899) – Boulenger's blind snake
Myriopholis narirostris (W. Peters, 1867)
Myriopholis nursii (Anderson, 1896) – Nurse's blind snake
Myriopholis occipitalis Trape & Chirio, 2019
Myriopholis parkeri (Broadley, 1999) – Parker's worm snake
Myriopholis perreti (Roux-Estève, 1979)
Myriopholis rouxestevae (J.-F. Trape & Mané, 2004) – Roux-Estève's worm snake
Myriopholis tanae (Broadley & Wallach, 2007) – Tana worm snake
Myriopholis wilsoni (Hahn, 1978) – Wilson's blind snake
Myriopholis yemenica (Scortecci, 1933) – Yemen blind snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Myriopholis.
References

Myriopholis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.