San Salvador blind snake

San Salvador blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Epictia
Species: E. columbi
Binomial name
Epictia columbi
(Klauber, 1939)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leptotyphlops columbi Klauber, 1939
  • Leptotyphlops columbi
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Epictia columbi
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Epictia columbi
    — Wallach et al., 2014

The San Salvador blind snake (Epictia columbi) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, columbi, is in honor of Christopher Columbus.[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to San Salvador Island in The Bahamas.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Buckner, S. 2016. Epictia columbi (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T50956478A115405981. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T50956478A50956486.en. Downloaded on 24 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Epictia columbi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops columbi, p. 57).
  6. ↑ Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Leptotyphlops columbi, p. 188).

Further reading

  • Klauber LM (1939). "Three New Worm Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9 (14): 59-65. (Leptotyphlops columbi, new species, pp. 62–64 + Figures 3a & 3b on p. 65).
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