Common names: blind snakes, blindsnakes.

Typhlops is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of blind snakes

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 Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel like burrowing structure. They live underground in burrows, and since...

 found in Europe

Europe

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, Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

, Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 and Central

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

 and South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

. Currently, 120 species are recognized.

Geographic range

Found in southeastern Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

, tropical and subtropical Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

, most of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

, Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

 and certain islands of the Indian Ocean, the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

, Moluccas, New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

, Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

, South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 and the West Indies.

Species

Species	Taxon author	Subsp.*	Common name	Geographic range
T. ahsanai Typhlops ahsanai Typhlops ahsanai, or Ahsan's blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Khan, 1999	0	Ahsan's blind snake
T. andamanensis	Stoliczka Ferdinand Stoliczka Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas.-Early life:Stoliczka was born at the lodge Zámeček near Kroměříž in Moravia... , 1871	0	Andaman worm snake
T. angolensis Typhlops angolensis Typhlops angolensis, known commonly as the Angola blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Bocage José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. He published numerous works on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880s he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs... , 1866)	0	Angola blind snake
T. annae Typhlops annae Typhlops annae is a species of blind snake endemic to the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy, an overseas collectivity of France. First described in 1999, it is still not well known.-External links:* at the Encyclopedia of Life...	Breuil, 1999	0	Saint Barthélemy blind snake
T. arenarius Typhlops arenarius Typhlops arenarius is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Grandidier, 1872)	0
T. ater Typhlops ater Typhlops ater is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Schlegel Hermann Schlegel Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history... , 1839	0
T. beddomii Typhlops beddomii Typhlops beddomii is a harmless blind snake species found in southern India. Named after Richard Henry Beddome, 1830-1911: a British army officer and botanist. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1890	0	Beddome's worm snake
T. bibronii Typhlops bibronii Typhlops bibronii is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Smith, 1846)	0
T. biminiensis Typhlops biminiensis Typhlops biminiensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-References:* Richmond, N.D. 1955. The blind snakes of Bimini, Bahama Islands, British West Indies, with description of a new species. American Museum Novitates 1734:1-7....	Richmond, 1955	1
T. bipartitus Typhlops bipartitus Typhlops bipartitus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Sauvage, 1879	0
T. bisubocularis Typhlops bisubocularis Typhlops bisubocularis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boettger Oskar Boettger Oskar Boettger was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger .... , 1893	0
T. bothriorhynchus Typhlops bothriorhynchus Typhlops bothriorhynchus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Günther Albert C. L. G. Günther Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther , was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.... , 1864	0
T. boulengeri Typhlops boulengeri Typhlops boulengeri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Bocage, 1893	0
T. brongersmianus Typhlops brongersmianus Typhlops brongersmianus is a harmless blind snake species found in South America. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Vanzolini, 1976	0	Burrowing snake
T. canlaonensis Typhlops canlaonensis Typhlops canlaonensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor Edward Harrison Taylor Edward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central... , 1917	0
T. capitulatus Typhlops capitulatus Typhlops capitulatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-References:* Richmond, N.D. 1964. The blind snakes of Haiti with descriptions of three new species. Breviora :1-12....	Richmond, 1964	0
T. cariei Typhlops cariei Typhlops cariei is a harmless blind snake species found in Mauritius. It is known only from recent fossils and is considered to be extinct. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in only on the island of Mauritius...	Hoffstetter, 1946	0
T. castanotus Typhlops castanotus Typhlops castanotus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wynn & Leviton, 1993	0
T. catapontus Typhlops catapontus Typhlops catapontus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas Oldfield Thomas Oldfield Thomas FRS was a British zoologist.Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and sub-species for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878... , 1966	0
T. caymanensis Typhlops caymanensis Typhlops caymanensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Sackett, 1940	0
T. ceylonicus Typhlops ceylonicus Typhlops ceylonicus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Smith, 1943	0
T. coecatus Typhlops coecatus Typhlops coecatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Jan, 1863	0
T. collaris Typhlops collaris Typhlops collaris is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wynn & Leviton, 1993	0
T. comorensis Typhlops comorensis Typhlops comorensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1889	0
T. congestus Typhlops congestus Typhlops congestus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Duméril & Bibron Gabriel Bibron Gabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant... , 1844)	0
T. conradi Typhlops conradi Typhlops conradi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Peters Wilhelm Peters Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens... , 1874	0
T. costaricensis Typhlops costaricensis Typhlops costaricensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Jiménez & Savage, 1963	0
T. cuneirostris Typhlops cuneirostris Typhlops cuneirostris is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Peters, 1879	0
T. decorosus Typhlops decorosus Typhlops decorosus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Buchholz & Peters, 1875	0
T. decorsei Typhlops decorsei Typhlops decorsei is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Mocquard, 1901	0
T. depressiceps Typhlops depressiceps Typhlops depressiceps is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Sternfeld, 1913	0
T. diardii Typhlops diardii Typhlops diardii is a harmless blind snake species found mainly in Southeast Asia. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Schlegel, 1839	0	Diard's blindsnake
T. domergnei Typhlops domergnei Typhlops domergnei is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wilhelm Roux-Estève, 1980	0
T. dominicanus	Stejneger Leonhard Hess Stejneger Leonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians.... , 1904	1
T. elegans Typhlops elegans Typhlops elegans is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Peters, 1868	0
T. epactius Typhlops epactius Typhlops epactius is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1968	0
T. exiguus Typhlops exiguus Typhlops exiguus is a harmless blind snake species found in India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in southwestern India where it is know only from Belgaum in the state of Karnataka. The type locality given is "Indes orientalis" [East Indies]....	Jan, 1864	0	Belgaum worm snake
T. floweri Typhlops floweri Typhlops floweri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1899	0
T. fornasinii Typhlops fornasinii Typhlops fornasinii is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Bianconi, 1847	0
T. fredparkeri Typhlops fredparkeri Typhlops fredparkeri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wallach, 1996	0
T. giadinhensis Typhlops giadinhensis Typhlops giadinhensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Bourret, 1937	0
T. gierrai Typhlops gierrai Typhlops gierrai is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Mocquard, 1897	0
T. gonavensis Typhlops gonavensis Typhlops gonavensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-References:* Richmond, N.D. 1964. The blind snakes of Haiti with descriptions of three new species. Breviora :1-12....	Richmond, 1964	0
T. granti Typhlops granti Typhlops granti, known commonly as the Grant's blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Ruthven & Gaige, 1935	0	Grant's blind snake
T. grivensis Typhlops grivensis Typhlops grivensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Hoffstetter, 1946	0
T. hectus Typhlops hectus Typhlops hectus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1974	0
T. hedraeus Typhlops hedraeus Typhlops hedraeus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Savage, 1950	0
T. hypogius Typhlops hypogius Typhlops hypogius is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Savage, 1950	0
T. hypomethes Typhlops hypomethes Typhlops hypomethes, known commonly as the Coastal blindsnake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Hedges & Thomas, 1991	0	Coastal blindsnake
T. hypsobothrius Typhlops hypsobothrius Typhlops hypsobothrius is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Werner Franz Werner Franz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms.... , 1917	0
T. inornatus Typhlops inornatus Typhlops inornatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1888	0
T. jamaicensis Typhlops jamaicensis Typhlops jamaicensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Shaw George Shaw George Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University... , 1802)	0
T. jerdoni Typhlops jerdoni Typhlops jerdoni is a harmless blind snake species found in India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in eastern and northern India in Sikkim, northern West Bengal, Seven Sisters [Assam], and Meghalaya. Possibly, it also occurs in Myanmar . The type locality given is...	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1890	0	Jerdon's worm snake
T. khoratensis Typhlops khoratensis Typhlops khoratensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1962	0
T. klemmeri Typhlops klemmeri Typhlops klemmeri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1962	0
T. koekkoeki Typhlops koekkoeki Typhlops koekkoeki is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Brongersma, 1934	0
T. koshunensis Typhlops koshunensis Typhlops koshunensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Oshima, 1916	0
T. kraalii Typhlops kraalii Typhlops kraalii is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Doria, 1874	0
T. lankaensis Typhlops lankaensis Typhlops lankaensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1947	0
T. lehneri Typhlops lehneri Typhlops lehneri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Roux, 1926	0
T. leucomelas Typhlops leucomelas Typhlops leucomelas is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1890	0
T. leucostictus Typhlops leucostictus Typhlops leucostictus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1898	0
T. lineolatus Typhlops lineolatus Typhlops lineolatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Jan, 1863	0
T. loveridgei Typhlops loveridgei Typhlops loveridgei is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. It is named after Arthur Loveridge, an American herpetologist. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Constable, 1949	0	Loveridge's worm snake
T. lumbricalis Typhlops lumbricalis Typhlops lumbricalis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.... T	(Linnaeus Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology... , 1758)	0
T. luzonensis Typhlops luzonensis Typhlops luzonensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1919	0
T. madagascariensis Typhlops madagascariensis Typhlops madagascariensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boettger, 1877	0
T. madgemintonai Typhlops madgemintonai Typhlops madgemintonai, or Madge's blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Khan, 1999	1	Madge's blind Snake, Sherman's blind Snake
T. malcolmi Typhlops malcolmi Typhlops malcolmi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1947	0
T. manilae Typhlops manilae Typhlops manilae is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1919	0
T. manni Typhlops manni Typhlops manni is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. It is a form of blind snake....	Loveridge, 1941	0
T. marxi Typhlops marxi Typhlops marxi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wallach, 1993	0
T. mcdowelli Typhlops mcdowelli Typhlops mcdowelli is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wallach, 1996	0
T. microstomus Typhlops microstomus Typhlops microstomus, or the Yucatán blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... , 1866	0	Yucatán blind snake
T. minuisquamus Typhlops minuisquamus Typhlops minuisquamus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Dixon & Hendricks, 1979	0
T. mirus Typhlops mirus Typhlops mirus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Jan, 1860	0
T. monastus	Thomas, 1966	1
T. monensis Typhlops monensis Typhlops monensis is a harmless blind snake species is endemic to Mona Island in the West Indies. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Known only from the type locality, which is given as "Mona Island, West Indies."...	Schmidt Karl Patterson Schmidt Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled... , 1926	0	Mona blind snake
T. mucronatus Typhlops mucronatus Typhlops mucronatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boettger, 1880	0
T. oatesii Typhlops oatesii Typhlops oatesii is a harmless blind snake species found in the Cocos Islands. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Until recently, this species was only known from the type locality, which is "Table Island, Cocos Group, Andamans" in the Bay of Bengal. Table Island belongs to...	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1890	0	Andaman Island worm snake
T. obtusus Typhlops obtusus Typhlops obtusus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Peters, 1865	0
T. ocularis Typhlops ocularis Typhlops ocularis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Parker, 1927	0
T. oligolepis Typhlops oligolepis Typhlops oligolepis is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in the eastern Himalayas in India in the area of Sikkim and Darjiling district. The type locality given is "Nagri Valley below Darjeeling [India] at an...	Wall, 1909	0	Few-scaled worm snake
T. pammeces Typhlops pammeces Typhlops pammeces is a harmless blind snake species found in southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in southern India. The type locality given is "Madras" [India]....	Günther, 1864	0	Peninsular worm snake
T. paucisquamus Typhlops paucisquamus Typhlops paucisquamus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Dixon & Hendricks, 1979	0
T. platycephalus Typhlops platycephalus Typhlops platycephalus, or the Flat-headed blindsnake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Duméril & Bibron, 1844	0	Flat-headed blindsnake
T. platyrhynchus Typhlops platyrhynchus Typhlops platyrhynchus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Sternfeld, 1910	0
T. porrectus Typhlops porrectus Typhlops porrectus is a harmless blind snake species found in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and northern Myanmar. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Stoliczka, 1871	0	Slender worm snake
T. punctatus Typhlops punctatus Typhlops punctatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Leach William Elford Leach William Elford Leach FRS was an English zoologist and marine biologist.Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine samples from Plymouth Sound and along... , 1819)	1
T. pusillus Typhlops pusillus Typhlops pusillus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Barbour Thomas Barbour Thomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... , 1914	0
T. reticulatus Typhlops reticulatus Typhlops reticulatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Linnaeus, 1758)	0
T. reuteri Typhlops reuteri Typhlops reuteri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boettger, 1881	0
T. richardii Typhlops richardii Typhlops richardii, or Richard's blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Duméril & Bibron, 1844	0	Richard's blind snake
T. rondoensis Typhlops rondoensis Typhlops rondoensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Loveridge, 1942	0
T. rostellatus Typhlops rostellatus Typhlops rostellatus, known commonly as the Puerto Rican wetland blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-See also:*List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico*Fauna of Puerto Rico*List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico...	Stejneger Leonhard Hess Stejneger Leonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians.... , 1904	0	Puerto Rican wetland blind snake
T. ruber Typhlops ruber Typhlops ruber is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boettger, 1897	0
T. ruficaudus Typhlops ruficaudus Typhlops ruficaudus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Gray John Edward Gray John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray .... , 1845)	0
T. schmidti Typhlops schmidti Typhlops schmidti is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Laurent, 1956	1
T. schmutzi Typhlops schmutzi Typhlops schmutzi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Walter Auffenberg Walter Auffenberg Walter Auffenberg was an American herpetologist who spent almost 40 years in field research, studying reptile and amphibian paleontology and the systematics and biology of numerous reptile species, including alligators and Komodo dragons.-Early life:... >Auffenberg, 1980	0
T. schwartzi Typhlops schwartzi Typhlops schwartzi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1989	0
T. siamensis Typhlops siamensis Typhlops siamensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Günther, 1864	0
T. socotranus Typhlops socotranus Typhlops socotranus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Boulenger George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:... , 1889	0
T. steinhausi Typhlops steinhausi Typhlops steinhausi is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Werner, 1909	0
T. sulcatus Typhlops sulcatus Typhlops sulcatus, the sulcate blind snake or island worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-Geographic range:...	Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... , 1868	0	Sulcate blind snake
T. syntherus Typhlops syntherus Typhlops syntherus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1965	0
T. tasymicris	Thomas, 1974	0
T. tenebrarum Typhlops tenebrarum Typhlops tenebrarum is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1947	0
T. tenuicollis Typhlops tenuicollis Typhlops tenuicollis is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	(Peters, 1864)	0
T. tenuis Typhlops tenuis Typhlops tenuis is a harmless blind snake species found in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Salvin, 1860	0
T. tetrathyreus Typhlops tetrathyreus Typhlops tetrathyreus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1989	0
T. thurstoni Typhlops thurstoni Typhlops thurstoni is a harmless blind snake species found in western India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in south of Goa in western India, from sea level to approximately 1,200 m elevation . The type locality given is...	Boettger, 1890	0
T. tindalli Typhlops tindalli Typhlops tindalli is a harmless blind snake species found in southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Found in India in the Nilgiri Hills, Malabar District. The type locality given is "Nilambur, Malabar district" [India]....	Smith, 1943	0
T. titanops Typhlops titanops Typhlops titanops is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Thomas, 1989	0
T. trangensis Typhlops trangensis Typhlops leucomelas is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1962	0
T. trinitatus Typhlops trinitatus Typhlops trinitatus is a harmless blind snake species found in Trinidad and Tobago. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...	Richmond, 1965	0	Trinidad worm snake
T. uluguruensis Typhlops uluguruensis Typhlops uluguruensis is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Barbour & Loveridge, 1928	0
T. unilineatus Typhlops unilineatus Typhlops unilineatus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	(Duméril & Bibron, 1844)	0
T. veddae Typhlops veddae Typhlops veddae is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1947	0
T. vermicularis Typhlops vermicularis Typhlops vermicularis, the European blind snake or European worm snake, is a reptile species in the genus Typhlops found in Europe and in Lebanon ....	Merrem Blasius Merrem Blasius Merrem was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He developed an interest in zoology, particularly ornithology... , 1820	0
T. violaceus Typhlops violaceus Typhlops violaceus is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Taylor, 1947	0
T. wilsoni Typhlops wilsoni Typhlops wilsoni is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Wall, 1908	0
T. yonenagae Typhlops yonenagae Typhlops yonenagae is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Rodriques, 1991	0
T. zenkeri Typhlops zenkeri Typhlops zenkeri is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Sternfeld, 1908	0

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^T) Type species

Type species

In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...

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Gallery

Images of a Typhlops from Binnaguri, North Bengal, India.