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Epictia albipuncta (BURMEISTER, 1861)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStenostoma albifrons var. albipuncta BURMEISTER 1861
Stenostoma melanoterma COPE 1862: 350
Stenostoma (Typhlops) undecimstriatus var. albipuncta — JAN 1863: 15
Stenostoma flavifrons WEYENBERGH in NAPP 1876
Stenostoma melanostoma GÜNTHER 1893: 85 (in error)
Stenostoma melanosterna BOULENGER 1893 (in error)
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi OREJAS-MIRANDA 1964: 1
Leptotyphlops melanotermus — OREJAS-MIRANDA 1964: 4
Leptotyphlops albipuncta — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 168
Leptotyphlops albifrons ABALOS & MISCHIS 1975 (part.)
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — FREIBERG 1982
Leptotyphlops albipuncta — CEI 1993
Leptotyphlops melanotermus — CEI 1993
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — CEI 1993
Leptotyphlops melanotermus — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 11
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 12
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 46
Leptotyphlops melanotermus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 37
Leptotyphlops albipunctus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 20
Epictia albipuncta — ADALSTEINSSON et al. 2009
Epictia melanoterma — WALLACH et al. 2014: 277
Epictia albipuncta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 275
Epictia weyrauchi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 284
Epictia melanoterma — WALLACH 2016 
DistributionArgentina (Tucumán, Salta, Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, San Juan), Bolivia

Type locality: Tucumán, Argentina.

melanotermus (synonym): S Peru ?, Bolivia, W/S Paraguay, SW Brazil, N Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Corrientes); Type locality: Corrientes, Argentina.

weyrauchi (synonym): Argentina (Tucuman, Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Cordoba); Type locality: Ciudad de Tucuman, Provincia de Tucuman, Argentina.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MLUH IZH-R 461 (Martin-Luther Universität Halle, Wittenberg. Institut für Zoologie. Zoologische Sammlungen).
Syntypes: ANSP 3297-98, was USNM 5406 [melanoterma]
Holotype: MHNM (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Montevideo) CH 911 [weyrauchi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Presencia de escamas supraoculares grandes que no contactan con las escamas supralabiales, 12 escamas alrededor de la parte media de la cola. Doscientos cuarenta y tres a 274 escamas dorsales totales y 12 a 32 subcaudales. Dorso de color variado, variando desde totalmente negro, castaño oscuro o gris oscuro acerado, hasta un color crema con siete líneas longitudinales castaño oscuras del mismo ancho de las claras a lo largo del cuerpo. Presencia o ausencia de mancha blanquecina en la escama rostral y en la punta de la cola. Pueden tener la mancha blanca en la escama rostral y no en la cola o viceversa. 
CommentSynonymy after Kretzschmar 2006. Sometimes the describer is given as JAN 1861 but see KRETZSCHMAR 2006. 
References
  • Acosta, Rodrigo; Blanco, Graciela Mirta; Galdeano, Ana Paula; Gómez Alés, Rodrigo; Acosta, Juan Carlos 2017. Primer registro de Epictia albipuncta Burmeister, 1861 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) en la provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Cuad. herpetol. 32 (2): - get paper here
  • 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
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Burmeister,H. 1861. Reise durch die La Plata Staaten mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die physische Beschaffenheit und den Culturzustand der Argentinischen Republik. Ausgeführt in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 und 1860. Halle, H.W. Schmidt, 2: iv + 538 pp.
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  • Cope, E.D. 1862. Catalogues of the reptiles obtained during the explorations of the Parana Paraguay, Vermejo and Uruguay rivers, by Capt. Thos. J. Page, U.S.N.; and of those procured by Lieut. N. Michier, U. S. Top. Eng., Commander of the expedition conducting the su Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 346-359. - get paper here
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  • Freiberg, M.A. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 pp. - get paper here
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  • Scrocchi G. 1990. CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE OF ARGENTINA II. NEW DATA ON LEPTOTYPHLOPS-AUSTRALIS FREIBERG AND OREJAS MIRANDA 1968 [in Spanish]. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 39 (2): 113-114
  • 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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