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Epictia striatula (SMITH & LAUFE, 1945)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeptotyphlops striatula SMITH & LAUFE 1945: 29
Leptotyphlops melanotermus PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 (part.)
Leptotyphlops striatula — CEI 1993
Leptotyphlops striatulus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 43
Epictia striatula — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Epictia striatula — WALLACH et al. 2014: 278
Epictia striatula — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBolivia, Argentina (Salta), Peru, Brazil

Type locality: "Yamachi" = Yanacachi, Sur de Yungas, Bolivia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 98889. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. A member of the albifrons section of the genus, having large supraoculars, a normal snout, two supralabials, a lined pattern, a yellowish snout and tail-tip, a total length/tail ratio of 12.7, and a total length/diameter ratio of 41.6. Related to rufidorsum and tenella, having the supraoculars enlarged more than is usual in the albifrons section, and narrowly separated from the 1st supralabials. Differs from these by having 12 scale rows around the tail, 249 dorsal scales, 23 subcaudals, and every scale row with a very distinet, broad median dark stripe. (Smith & Laufe 1945)


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CommentHas been considered a synonym of Leptotyphlops melanotermus by HAHN 1980. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin striatus, provided with channels; groove; wrinkle + Latin -ula, diminutive suffix. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
  • Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, S.; Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50 - get paper here
  • Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93
  • FRANCISCO, BÁRBARA CRISTINA S.; ROBERTA R. PINTO & DANIEL S. FERNANDES 2012. Taxonomy of Epictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961) (Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3512: 42–52 - get paper here
  • Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61 - get paper here
  • Laurent R F 1984. El genero Leptotyphlops en la coleccion de la Fundacion Miguel Lillo. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 38 (1): 29-34
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here
  • Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here
  • Smith, H.M. & LAUFE, L. E. 1945. A new South American Leptotyphlops. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 58: 29-32 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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