| Higher Taxa | Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Black Blind Snake |
| Synonym | Stenostoma fallax PETERS 1858: 402
Stenostoma fallax — PETERS 1862: 36
Stenostoma fallax — GÜNTHER 1866: 25, 1885–1902: 85
Stenostoma fallax — OREJAS-MIRANDA In PETERS et al., 1970 and 1986: 169
Stenostoma fallax — VANZOLINI 1977: 83
Stenostoma fallax — HAHN 1980: 15
Stenostoma fallax — BAUER et al., 1995: 24, 77, 2002: 159
Leptotyphlops goudotii — MCDIARMID et al., 1999: 30
Epictia goudotii — WALLACH et al., 2014: 277.
Epictia fallax — NATERA-MUMAW et al. 2015: 294 |
| Distribution | Venezuela (Anzoátegui, Aragua, Carabobo, Falcón, Distrito Capital, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Vargas y Yaracuy)
Type locality: “Laguayra”
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZMB 9550 |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2802 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Natera-Mumaw et al. (2016) removed Stenostoma fallax Peters from the synonymy of E. goudotii and recognized E. fallax as the name for the population occurring in northern Venezuela. Wallach 2016: 315 agrees with this assessment; however, he had only one specimen for his analysis and no molecular analysis seems to have been done. Synonymy after Wallach 2016 who listed all names under Stenostoma fallax, hence the synonymy given here is largely incorrect for chresonyms.
Distribution: see map 59 in NATERA-MUMAW et al. 2015. |
| Etymology | A Latin adjective meaning ‘deceptive’ or ‘fallacious’ in the neutral nominative, with unclear justification. |
| References |
- Bauer, A.M., Wallach, V., and Günther, R. 2002. An annotated type catalogue of the scolecophidian, alethinophidian, and macrostomatan snakes in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB). Mitt. Mus. Naturkunde Berlin 78:157-176. - get paper here
- Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
- Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
- Günther,A. 1866. Fifth account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 18: 24-29 - get paper here
- Hahn, D.E. 1980. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Anomalepididae, Leptotyphlopidae, Typhlopidae. Das Tierreich, De Gruyter (Berlin) 101: 45
- 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
- Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1858. Vier neue amerikanische Schlangen aus der Familie der Typhlopinen und darüber einige vorläufige Mittheilungen. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1857 (August): 402 [1857] - get paper here
- Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1862. Ueber Typhlops flavoterminatus und Herrn Prof. Jan's Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, als Erwiederung auf dessen Bemerkungen in dem Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1861 p.7. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 28 (1): 35-47 - get paper here
- Señaris, J. Celsa; María Matilde Aristeguieta Padrón, Haidy Rojas Gil y Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic 2018. Guía ilustrada de los anfibios y reptiles del valle de Caracas, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). Caracas, Venezuela. 348 pp.
- Vanzolini,P.E. 1977. An annotated bibliography of the land and fresh-water reptiles of South America (1758-1975). Vol. I (1758-1900). Museu de Zoologia, Univ. Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, IV + 186 pp. - get paper here
- Wallach, Van. 2016. Morphological review and taxonomic status of the Epictia phenops species group of Mesoamerica, with description of six new species and discussion of South American Epictia albifrons, E. goudotii, and E. tenella (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 216-374 - get paper here
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