Santander blind snake

Santander blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Trilepida
Species: T. nicefori
Binomial name
Trilepida nicefori
Dunn, 1946
Synonyms[2]
  • Leptotyphlops nicefori
    Dunn, 1946
  • Rena nicefori
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Tricheilostoma nicefori
    — Pinto et al., 2010
  • Trilepida nicefori
    — Hedges, 2011

The Santander blind snake (Trilepida nicefori) is a species of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, nicefori, is in honor of missionary Brother Nicéforo María (1888–1980), born Antoine Rouhaire in France, who established a natural history museum in Medellin, Colombia.[5]

Geographic range

T. nicefori is known only from Santander Department, Colombia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Caicedo, J., Calderón, M., Ines Hladki, A., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Urbina, N. & Wallach, V. 2015. Trilepida nicefori. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T178499A44954886. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T178499A44954886.en. Downloaded on 24 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Trilepida nicefori ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops nicefori, p. 190).

Further reading

  • Dunn ER (1946). "A New Snake from the Eastern Andes of Colombia". Caldasia 4 (17): 121-122. (Leptotyphlops nicefori, new species).
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