The Guayaquila blind snake (''Epictia guayaquilensis'') is a species of
snake
Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...
s in the family
Leptotyphlopidae.
[McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume).]
References
Epictia
Snakes of South America
Reptiles of Ecuador
Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Reptiles described in 1970
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