''Rhinotyphlops'' is a
genus of
blind snakes
The Scolecophidia, commonly known as blind snakes or thread snakes, are an infraorder of snakes. They range in length from . All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing). Five families and 39 genera are recognized. The Scolecophidia infraorder is mo ...
in the
family Typhlopidae. The genus is found in
Africa, the
Middle East, and
India.
Some species formerly assigned to the genus ''Rhinotyphlops'' have been moved to the
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
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Afrotyphlops
''Afrotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Distribution
The 28 species of this genus are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.. www.reptile-database.org.
* Angola blind s ...
'' and ''
Letheobia''.
Species
''*) Not including the
nominate subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
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Type species.
References
External links
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Typhlopidae
Snake genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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