Tricheilostoma
Genus of snakes
| Tricheilostoma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae |
| Genus: | Tricheilostoma Jan, 1860 |
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) – two-colored blind snake
- Tricheilostoma broadleyi (Wallach & Hahn, 1997)
- Tricheilostoma dissimilis (Bocage, 1886) – Sudan blind snake
- Tricheilostoma greenwelli (Wallach & Boundy, 2005)
- Tricheilostoma kongoensis (J.-F. Trape, 2019)
- Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862) – 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
- ^ Genus Tricheilostoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
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).
