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Amerotyphlops lehneri (ROUX, 1926)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Typhlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Estado Falcón Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops lehneri ROUX 1926: 298
Typhlops lehneri — DIXON & HENDRICKS 1979: 19
Typhlops lehneri — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 107
Amerotyphlops lehneri — HEDGES et al. 2014
Typhlops lehneri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 765 
DistributionVenezuela (Falcon).
Type locality: “El Pozon, Estado Faicon, Venezuela”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMBA (NMB Basel) 9020. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A n attenuate and diminutive Typhlops with a depressed snout and invariably 20 scale rows about the body; nasal cleft complete; dorsal scales from rostral to tail spine average 320; color pattern consists of 11 (occasionally 13) olive brown to light brown lines on a yellowish ground color, pattern sharply bicolored laterally, clear yellow below lateral dark line and beneath tail; rostral and tail spine bright yellow. (Dixon & Hendricks 1979: 19). 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Ernst Lehner, a geologist, paleontologist, and naturalist employed by the North Venezuela Petroleum Company in the state of Falcon and in Trinidad.  
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Dixon J R; Hendricks F S 1979. The wormsnakes (family Typhlopidae) of the neotropics, exclusive of the Antilles. Zoologische Verhandelingen (173): 1-39 - get paper here
  • Graboski R, Arredondo JC, Grazziotin FG, et al. 2018. Molecular phylogeny and hemipenial diversity of South American species of Amerotyphlops (Typhlopidae, Scolecophidia). Zoologica Scripta 48: 139– 156 - 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
  • Lancini,A.R. & Kornacker,P.M. 1989. Die Schlangen von Venezuela. Armitano Editores C.A., Caracas, 1-381
  • 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
  • RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
  • Roux, J. 1926. Notes d’erpétologie sud-américaine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 33 (4): 291-299 - get paper here
  • Roux, J. 1927. Contribution à l’erpétologie du Vénézuéla. Verhandlungen dem Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 38: 252—261
  • 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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