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Cubatyphlops caymanensis (SACKETT, 1940)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Typhlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Grand Cayman Blindsnake, Cayman Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops caymanensis SACKETT 1940
Typhlops caymanensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 646
Typhlops caymanensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 95
Typhlops caymanensis — KORNILIOS et al. 2013
Cubatyphlops caymanensis — HEDGES et al. 2014
Typhlops caymanensis — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Cubatyphlops caymanensis — NAGY et al. 2015
Typhlops caymanensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 760 
DistributionCayman Islands.

Type locality: “between Pedro Point and North Sound, Grand Cayman Island, West Indies”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 22123. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Allied to Typhlops tenuis of Mexico and Guatemala and T. stadelmani from Honduras but differs from both in that it has 20 scale rows around the body instead of 18, and about 380 scales from rostral to tip of tail as against 347 in stadelmani and 430 in tenuis. (Sackett 1940)


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CommentFor illustrations see Thomas, 1968; Thomas, 1976. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • 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
  • Kornilios, P.; S. Giokas, P. Lymberakis, R. Sindaco 2013. Phylogenetic position, origin and biogeography of Palearctic and Socotran blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (1): 35–41 - 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.
  • NAGY, ZOLTÁN T.; ANGELA B. MARION, FRANK GLAW, AURÉLIEN MIRALLES,<br />JOACHIM NOPPER, MIGUEL VENCES & S. BLAIR HEDGES 2015. Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). Zootaxa 4040 (1): 031–047 - get paper here
  • Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here
  • Sackett, J. T. 1940. Preliminary report on results of the West Indies-Guatemala expedition of 1940 for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Part I. A new blind snake of the genus Typhlops. Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia) 48:1-2.
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Thomas, R. 1968. The Typhlops biminiensis Group of Antillean Blind Snakes. Copeia 1968 (4): 713-722 - get paper here
  • Thomas, R. 1976. Systematics of Antillean blind snakes of the genus Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Ph.D. Thesis, Louisiana State Univ.: xvi + 288pp.
 
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