Trilepida

Trilepida is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.

Trilepida
Big-scaled blind snake (Trilepida macrolepis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily:	Epictinae
Genus:	Trilepida Hedges, 2011

Geographic range

Species in the genus Trilepida are native to northern South America and Panama.[1]

Taxonomy

All of the species in the genus Trilepida were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Species

The genus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

• 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

1. Genus Trilepida at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• 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).