Siagonodon borrichianus (DEGERBØL, 1923)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Degerbol's Blind Snake
Synonym	Glauconia borrichiana DEGERBØL 1923: 113 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — AMARAL 1929: 139 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 23 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — BERNILS et al. 2007 Siagonodon borrichianus — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — SCROCCHI et al. 2010: 207 Siagonodon borrichianus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 665
Distribution	W Argentina (Mendoza to Rio Negro, NW Patagonia) Type locality: Santa Rosa, Mendoza, Argentina.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMUC, Universitetets Zoologiske Museum Denmark, no. R539.
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: see Martins et al. 2020: 852 (Fig. 12) for a map of all 4 Siagonodon species, the sister clade of Habrophallos.
Etymology	named after Ole Borch. See this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Borch
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 Amaral,A. do 1930. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929] - get paper here Aragón-Traverso, J H; Sanabria, E A; Quiroga, L B & Espinoza, R E; 2019. Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbøl’s Blindsnake) Predation. Herpetological Review 50 (3): 602 - get paper here Degerbøl, M. 1923. Description of a new snake of the genus Glauconia, from Mendoza. Vidensk. Meddel. dansk naturhist. Foren., Stockholm, 76:113-114 - get paper here Francisco, Bárbara C. S.; Roberta R. Pinto, and Daniel S. Fernandes 2018. Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Siagonodon Peters, 1881, with a Report on Morphological Variation in Siagonodon cupinensis (Bailey and Carvalho, 1946) (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Copeia 106 (2): 321-328 - get paper here Freiberg, M.A. 1951. Nuevo hallazgo de Leptolyphlops borrichiana Degerbol en Argentina. Physis 20 (58): 259-262 Fulvio-Perez, Cristian Hernan; Daniel Roberto Pérez and Luciano Javier Ávila 2010. New records of Leptotyphlops borrichianus Degerbøl, 1923 in northwestern Patagonia. Herpetology Notes 3: 065-67 Martínez, T A; Rodriguez Muñoz, M J; Fava, G; Acosta, J C; Blanco, G & Ruiz, E; 2019. Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbol’s Blind Snake) Avian predation. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 403-404 - get paper here Martins AR, Koch C, Pinto R, Folly M, Fouquet A, Passos P. 2019. From the inside out: Discovery of a new genus of threadsnakes based on anatomical and molecular data, with discussion of the leptotyphlopid hemipenial morphology. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Rersearch - get paper here 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. Scrocchi, Gustavo J.; Cristian S. Abdala,Javier Nori, Hussam Zaher 2010. Reptiles de la provincia de Río Negro, Argentina. Fondo Ed. Rionegrino, 249 pp. Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Borch Google images

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