''Amerotyphlops'' is a
genus of
snakes in the
family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19
species of this genus are found from
Mexico through
South America.
[. www.reptile-database.org.]
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*'']Amerotyphlops amoipira
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops arenensis
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops brongersmianus
''Amerotyphlops brongersmianus'', known commonly as Brongersma's worm snake or the South American striped blindsnake, is a species of harmless blind snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is native to South America and Trinidad and Tobago ...
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*''Amerotyphlops caetanoi
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops costaricensis
The Costa Rica worm snake (''Amerotyphlops costaricensis'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae
The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland ...
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*''Amerotyphlops illusorium
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops lehneri
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops martis
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops microstomus
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*'' Amerotyphlops minuisquamus''
*''Amerotyphlops montanum
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops paucisquamus
The Pernambuco worm snake (''Amerotyphlops paucisquamus'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, ...
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*'' Amerotyphlops reticulatus''
*'' Amerotyphlops stadelmani''
*''Amerotyphlops tasymicris
The Grenada worm snake or Grenada Bank blindsnake (''Amerotyphlops tasymicris'') is a species of blind snake that is endemism, endemic to Grenada, an island in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles.
It reaches a total length of 180 mm. It has ligh ...
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*'' Amerotyphlops tenuis''
*''Amerotyphlops trinitatus
''Amerotyphlops trinitatus'', known commonly as the Trinidad blindsnake, Trinidad worm snake, and Trinidad burrowing snake, (''Typhlops trinitatus'', p. 45 + Plate 1). is a harmless blind snake species in the family Typhlopidae. The species i ...
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*''Amerotyphlops tycherus
''Amerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.
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*''Amerotyphlops yonenagae
The Yonenga worm snake (''Amerotyphlops yonenagae''), also known commonly as Yonenaga's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Brazil.
Etymology
The specific name, ''yonenagae'' (Latin, femi ...
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'' Nota bene'': A binomial authority
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Amerotyphlops''.
References
Further reading
* Hedges, S. Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie; Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". ''Caribbean Herpetology'' 49: 1–61. (''Amerotyphlops'', new genus, pp. 43–44).
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Typhlopidae
Snake genera
Taxa named by Stephen Blair Hedges