Trilepida is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.
| Trilepida | |
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| Big-scaled blind snake (Trilepida macrolepis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae |
| Genus: | Trilepida Hedges, 2011 |
Geographic range edit
Species in the genus Trilepida are native to northern South America and Panama.[1]
Taxonomy edit
All of the species in the genus Trilepida were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species edit
The genus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Trilepida acutirostris Pinto & Curcio, 2011
- Trilepida affinis (Boulenger, 1884) – Venezuela blind snake
- Trilepida anthracina (Bailey, 1946) – Bailey's blind snake
- Trilepida brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949) – Brazilian blind snake
- Trilepida brevissima (Shreve, 1964) – Caqueta blind snake
- Trilepida dimidiata (Jan, 1861) – dainty blind snake
- Trilepida dugandi (Dunn, 1944) – Dugand's blind snake
- Trilepida fuliginosa (Passos, Caramaschi & Pinto, 2006)
- Trilepida guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & J. Peters, 1970) – Guayaquila blind snake
- Trilepida jani (Pinto & Fernandes, 2012)
- Trilepida joshuai (Dunn, 1944) – Joshua's blind snake
- Trilepida koppesi (Amaral, 1955) – Amaral's blind snake
- Trilepida macrolepis (W. Peters, 1858) – big-scaled blind snake
- Trilepida nicefori (Dunn, 1946) – Santander blind snake
- Trilepida pastusa (Salazar-Valenzuela, Martins, Amador-Oyola & Torres-Carvajal, 2015)
- Trilepida salgueiroi (Amaral, 1955) – Espírito Santo blind snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trilepida.
References edit
- ^ a b Genus Trilepida at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading edit
- Hedges, S. Blair (2011). "The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)". Zootaxa 3027: 63–64. (Trilepida, new genus, p. 63).