Trilepida brevissima (SHREVE, 1964)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Caqueta Blind Snake
Synonym	Leptotyphlops brevissimus SHREVE 1964 Leptotyphlops brevissimus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 24 Tricheilostoma brevissimum — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Trilepida brevissima — HEDGES 2011 Tricheilostoma brevissimum — PINTO & FERNANDES 2012 Trilepida brevissima — WALLACH et al. 2014: 738
Distribution	Colombia. Type locality: Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MLS 1311 (Museo del Instituto La Salle, Bogota), Collected by: Niceforo Maria Collection Date: February 10, 1951. Paratypes: (n=2) MCZ 38950 (taken from the stomach of Micrurus mipartitus (Dumeril, Dumeril and Bibron), MCZ 21988, from Sonson, Antioquia, Colombia, collected by Niceforo Maria in 1925. This specimen has about a third of the head missing on the right side.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Tricheilostoma brevissimum is distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: snout truncate in dorsal view; rounded in lateral view; supraocular present; rostral scale subtriangular in dorsal view; ocular subhexagonal with rounded shape at the eye level; supraocular longer than frontal scale; temporal distinct; fused caudals present; nostril posterior to nasal suture; three supralabials (2+1); four infralabials; 152–162 middorsal scales; 141–152 midventral scales; 12–14 subcaudals; 10 scales around the middle of tail; seven dorsal scale rows uniformly brown, and seven ventral series pale brown (from PINTO-RICHARD et a. 2010).
Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin brevissima, short, little, small, stunted. [“...The new snake will be given a name suggested by the exceedingly low dorsal scale count...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 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 HEDGES, S. BLAIR 2011. The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3027: 63–64 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Passos, Paulo; Caramaschi, Ulisses; Pinto, Roberta R. 2006. Redescription of Leptotyphlops koppesi Amaral, 1954, and description of a new species of the Leptotyphlops dulcis group from Central Brazil (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 27 (3): 347-357 - get paper here Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp. Pinto, Roberta R. and Ronaldo Fernandes 2012. A New Blind Snake Species of the Genus Tricheilostoma from Espinhaço Range, Brazil and Taxonomic Status of Rena dimidiata (Jan, 1861) (Serpentes: Epictinae: Leptotyphlopidae). Copeia 2012 (1): 37-48. - get paper here PINTO, ROBERTA R.; PAULO PASSOS, JOSÉ RANCES CAICEDO-PORTILLA, JUAN CAMILO ARREDONDO & RONALDO FERNANDES 2010. Taxonomy of the Threadsnakes of the tribe Epictini (Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) in Colombia. Zootaxa 2724: 1–28 - get paper here Shreve, Benjamin 1964. A new species of the snake Leptotyphlops from Colombia. Breviora (211): 1-4 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/337054298519175 Google images

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