Epictia columbi (KLAUBER, 1939)
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Epictia columbi
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| Higher Taxa | Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Bahamian Threadsnake, San Salvador Blind Snake |
| Synonym | Leptotyphlops albifrons — STEJNEGER 1905: 335 (part) Glauconia albifrons — WERNER 1917: 203 (part) Leptotyphlops columbi KLAUBER 1939: 62 Leptotyphlops colombi — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1946: 142 (in error) Leptotyphlops columbi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 618 Leptotyphlops columbi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 25 Epictia columbi — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Epictia columbi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 276 Epictia columbi — MCCRANIE & HEDGES 2016 |
| Distribution | Bahamas, San Salvador I. Type locality: Watlings Island (= San Salvador), Bahamas. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: CM. 1364; paratypes: CM, MCZ, SDNHM = SDSNH |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (1) scale row formula = 14-14-14; (2) midtail scale rows = 10; (3) total length = 86–183 (x– = 136.0) mm; (4) total middorsals = 240–265 (x– = 255.6); (5) subcaudals = 22–25 (x– = 23.7); (6) relative body pro- portion = 49–69 (x– = 58.3); (7) relative tail length = 5.7%–8.9% (x– = 7.6%); (8) relative tail width = 4.3–6.3 (x– = 5.1); (9) relative rostral width = 0.27–0.44 (x– = 0.35); (10) relative eye size = 0.35–0.41 (x– = 0.38); (10) rostral short and sagittate with a truncated apex, extending to anterior eye level; (11) supralabials 2, moderate anterior supral- abial just reaching eye level; (12) frontal subhexagonal, longer than wide; (13) supraoculars large, twice as broad as deep, posterior borders parallel to posterior supranasal borders; (14) widest anteriormost vertebral scale 3rd or 4th; (15) parietals and occipitals subequal, oriented obliquely; (16) infralabials 4; (17) cloacal shield semilunate in shape; (18) head brown, lacking a pale spot on rostral; (19) dorsum uniform blackish-brown to black (no stripes); (20) midventral 3 rows uniform reddish-brown to yellowish-brown, with a sharp demarcation between the dorsal and ventral color, at least anteriorly; (21) midbody stripe formula (U) and pattern (U); (22) dorsum of tail uniform brown, ventral 3 rows pale yellow; and (23) apical spine a laterally compressed cone (Wallach 2016: 237). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Klauber, 1939. Distribution: see map in MCCRANIE & HEDGES 2016: Fig. 4. |
| Etymology | This species was named in reference to Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the New World, with the first landfall supposedly on San Salvador Island. |
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