Epictia vellardi (LAURENT, 1984)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Portuguese: Cobra-Cega
Synonym	Leptotyphlops vellardi LAURENT 1984: 30 Leptotyphlops vellardi — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 12 Leptotyphlops vellardi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 46 Leptotyphlops vellardi — BERNILS et al. 2007 Epictia vellardi — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Epictia vellardi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 279 Epictia vellardi — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Argentina (Chaco, Formosa), Paraguay, Brazil Type locality: Ciudad de Formosa, Formosa, Argentina.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FML 00110, female
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2629 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Dr. Jehan Albert Vellard (1901-1996), a Tunisian born French physician, ethnologist, herpetologist, and arachnologist.
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 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cabral, Hugo and Flavia Netto. 2016. Geographic Distribution: Epictia vellardi. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 83 - get paper here Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93 FRANCISCO, BÁRBARA CRISTINA S.; ROBERTA R. PINTO & DANIEL S. FERNANDES 2012. Taxonomy of Epictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961) (Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3512: 42–52 - get paper here Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - 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 Laurent R F 1984. El genero Leptotyphlops en la coleccion de la Fundacion Miguel Lillo. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 38 (1): 29-34 Leynaud, Gerardo C. and Enrique H. Bucher 1999. La fauna de serpientes del Chaco Sudamericano: diversidad, distribución geografica y estado de conservación. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Miscelanea (98):1-46 Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Miranda, M.E. & Tio Vallejo,M. 1985. El género Leptotyphlops en Argentina (Reptilia: Ophidia). 1: Grupos septemstriatus, dulcis y albifrons. Phisis 43 (105): 71-72 Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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