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Epictia tricolor (OREJAS-MIRANDA & ZUG, 1974)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Three-colored Blind Snake 
SynonymLeptotyphlops tricolor OREJAS-MIRANDA & ZUG 1974
Leptotyphlops tricolor — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 45
Epictia tricolor — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Epictia tricolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 279 
DistributionPeru (Cajamarca, Ancash).

Type locality: Yunca Pampa, 2700 m, Huaylas District, Huaylas Province, Ancash Deapartment, Peru.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MUSM = Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado", Lima 0669. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Leptotyphlops of the tesselatus species group (Orejas- Miranda, 1964:4) characterized by broad contact between supraoculars and first pair of labials, differing from other members of the group except L. teaguei by its tricolor pattern of brick red, black, and cream longitudinal stripes, and differing from L. teaguei by absence of three narrow middorsal black stripes, presence of a cream colored mental region bisected by black stripe, and a higher number of dorsal scales (more than 300).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the 3 distinct colors of the species. 
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
  • Aguilar, César; Mikael Lundberg, Karen Siu-Ting y María Elena Jiménez 2007. Nuevos registros para la herpetofauna del departamento de Lima, descripción del renacuajo de Telmatobius rimac Schmidt, 1954 (Anura: Ceratophrydae) y una clave de los anfibios. Rev. peru. biol. 14(2): 209-216 - 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
  • Lehr, E.; Wallach, V. Köhler, G. & Aguilar, C. 2002. New species of tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptlia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru. Copeia 2002 (1): 131-136 - 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.
  • 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
  • Orejas-Miranda, B.R. & ZUG, G.R. 1974. A new tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Serpentes) from Peru. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 87 (16): 167 - 174 - 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.
  • Zug,G.R. 1977. Distribution and variation of Leptotyphlops tricolor. Copeia 1977 (4): 744-745 - get paper here
 
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