Michoacán slender blind snake

Michoacán slender blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Rena
Species: R. bressoni
Binomial name
Rena bressoni
(Taylor, 1939)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leptotyphlops bressoni
    Taylor, 1939
  • Rena bressoni
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009

The Michoacán slender blind snake (Rena bressoni ) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Michoacán, Mexico.[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, bressoni, is in honor of Julio Raymond Bresson, who collected the type specimen.[5]

Reproduction

R. bressoni is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Flores-Villela O, Canseco-Márquez L (2007). "Rena bressoni ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64055A12740604. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64055A12740604.en. Downloaded on 25 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Rena bressoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  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). (Leptotyphlops bressoni, p. 23).
  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 bressoni, p. 38).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Rena bressoni, new combination).
  • Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. 1. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Taylor EH (1939). "On North American Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops ". Copeia 1939 (1): 1-7. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, new species).


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