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{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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| taxon = Typhlops
| authority = [[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel]], 1811
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| synonyms = *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|Oppel, 1811}}
*''Tiphlops'' <br />{{small|[[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815}}
*''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Wilhelm Hemprich|Hemprich]], 1820}}
*''Typhlos'' <br />{{small|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1831}}
*''Aspidorhynchus'' <br />{{small|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843}}
*''Gerrhopilus'' <br />{{small|Fitzinger, 1843}}
*''Ophthalmidion'' <br />{{small|[[André Marie Constant Duméril|A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1844}}
*''Cathetorhinus'' <br />{{small|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844}}
*''Anilios'' <br />{{small|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1845}}
*''Argyrophis'' <br />{{small|Gray, 1845}}
*''Meditoria'' <br />{{small|Gray, 1845}}
*''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel|Gistel]], 1846}}
*''Diaphorotyphlops'' <br />{{small|[[Giorgio Jan|Jan]] ''in'' Jan & [[:fr:Ferdinando Sordelli|Sordelli]], 1860}}
*''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}
*''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1922}}
*''Ophthalmidium'' <br />{{small|[[Arthur Loveridge|Loveridge]], 1957}}<ref name="McD99">[[:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jonathan A. Campbell|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).</ref>
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'''''Typhlops''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Scolecophidia|blind snakes]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Typhlopidae]]. The genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[West Indies]].<ref name="McD99"/> Some species which were formerly placed in the genus ''Typhlops'' have been moved to the [[Genus|genera]] ''[[Afrotyphlops]], [[Amerotyphlops]], [[Anilios]], [[Antillotyphlops]], [[Argyrophis]], [[Cubatyphlops]], [[Indotyphlops]], [[Letheobia]], [[Madatyphlops]], [[Malayotyphlops]]'', and ''[[Xerotyphlops]]''.

==Species==
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|''[[Typhlops agoralionis|T. agoralionis]]''
|[[:fr:Richard Thomas (zoologiste)|Thomas]] & [[Stephen Blair Hedges|Hedges]], 2007
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|[[Massif de la Hotte|la Hotte]] blind snake
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|''[[Typhlops capitulatus|T. capitulatus]]''
|[[Neil D. Richmond|Richmond, 1964]]
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|[[Haiti]]an pale-lipped blind snake, [[Neil D. Richmond|Richmond's]] worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops eperopeus|T. eperopeus]]''
|Thomas & Hedges, 2007
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|[[Baoruco Mountain Range|Bahoruco]] blind snake 
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|''[[Typhlops gonavensis|T. gonavensis]]''
|Richmond, 1964
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|[[Gonâve Island]] worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops guadeloupensis|T. guadeloupensis]]''
|Richmond, 1966
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|Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops hectus|T. hectus]]''
|Thomas, 1974
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|[[Tiburon Peninsula]] blind snake, Thomas's worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops jamaicensis|T. jamaicensis]]''
|([[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1802)
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|[[Jamaica]]n blind snake, Jamaica worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops leptolepis|T. leptolepis]]''
|[[Michel Domínquez|Domínguez]], [[Ansel Fong G.|Fong]] & [[Manuel Iturriaga|Iturriaga]], 2013
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|''[[Typhlops lumbricalis|T. lumbricalis]]''<span style="font-size:100%;"><sup>T</sup></span>
|([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
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|earthworm blind snake
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|''[[Typhlops oxyrhinus|T. oxyrhinus]]''
|Domínguez & [[Raúl E. Díaz|Díaz]], 2011
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|''[[Typhlops pachyrhinus|T. pachyrhinus]]''
|Domínguez & Díaz, 2011
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|''[[Typhlops proancylops|T. proancylops]]''
|Thomas & Hedges, 2007
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|La Selle blind snake
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|''[[Typhlops pusillus|T. pusillus]]''
|[[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]], 1914
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|[[Hispaniola]] worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops rostellatus|T. rostellatus]]''
|[[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1904
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|[[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops schwartzi|T. schwartzi]]''
|Thomas, 1989
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|[[Albert Schwartz (zoologist)|Schwartz's]] worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops silus|T. silus]]''
|[[John Marshall Legler|Legler]], 1959 
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|''[[Typhlops sulcatus|T. sulcatus]]''
|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1868
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|island worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops sylleptor|T. sylleptor]]''
|Thomas & Hedges, 2007 
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|Pestel blind snake 
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|''[[Typhlops syntherus|T. syntherus]]''
|Thomas, 1965
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|Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops tetrathyreus|T. tetrathyreus]]''
|Thomas, 1989
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|Haitian worm snake
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|''[[Typhlops titanops|T. titanops]]''
|Thomas, 1989
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|titan worm snake
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''*) Not including the nominate subspecies.''<br/>
<span style="font-size:100%;"><sup>T</sup></span>) [[Type species]].<ref name="McD99"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{NRDB genus|genus=Typhlops|date=29 August|year=2007}}

==Further reading==
{{Commons}}
*[[Stephen Blair Hedges|Hedges SB]], [[Angela B. Marion|Marion AB]], [[Kelly M. Lipp|Lipp KM]], [[Julie Marin|Marin J]], [[Nicolas Vidal|Vidal N]] (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". ''Caribbean Herpetology'' '''49''': 1-61. (''Amerotyphlops, Antillotyphlops, Asiatyphlops, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, Xerotyphlops'', new genera).
*[[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel M]] (1811). ''Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben'' [= ''The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a [[Prodromus]] of a Natural History of the same'' ]. Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (''Typhlops'', new genus, pp.&nbsp;54–55). (in German and Latin).

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