Tricheilostoma
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Tricheilostoma is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is native to Africa. All of the member species of Tricheilostoma were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species
The genus Tricheilostoma contains the following six species.[1]
- Tricheilostoma bicolor (Jan, 1860)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – two-colored blind snake
- Tricheilostoma broadleyi (Wallach & Hahn, 1997)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Tricheilostoma dissimilis (Bocage, 1886)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Sudan blind snake
- Tricheilostoma greenwelli (Wallach & Boundy, 2005)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Tricheilostoma kongoensis (J.-F. Trape, 2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Sundevall's worm snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tricheilostoma.
References
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- ↑ Genus Tricheilostoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
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Further reading
- Jan [G] (1860). Iconographie générale des Ophidiens, Première livraison. (Illustrated by Ferdinando Sordelli). Paris: De Soye et Bouchet. Index + Plates I–VI. (Tricheilostoma, new subgenus of genus Stenostoma, Index). (in French).