Trilepida brevissima (SHREVE, 1964)
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Trilepida brevissima
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| Higher Taxa | Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Caqueta Blind Snake |
| Synonym | Leptotyphlops brevissimus SHREVE 1964 Leptotyphlops brevissimus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 24 Tricheilostoma brevissimum — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Trilepida brevissima — HEDGES 2011 Tricheilostoma brevissimum — PINTO & FERNANDES 2012 Trilepida brevissima — WALLACH et al. 2014: 738 |
| Distribution | Colombia. Type locality: Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MLS 1311 (Museo del Instituto La Salle, Bogota), Collected by: Niceforo Maria Collection Date: February 10, 1951. Paratypes: (n=2) MCZ 38950 (taken from the stomach of Micrurus mipartitus (Dumeril, Dumeril and Bibron), MCZ 21988, from Sonson, Antioquia, Colombia, collected by Niceforo Maria in 1925. This specimen has about a third of the head missing on the right side. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Tricheilostoma brevissimum is distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: snout truncate in dorsal view; rounded in lateral view; supraocular present; rostral scale subtriangular in dorsal view; ocular subhexagonal with rounded shape at the eye level; supraocular longer than frontal scale; temporal distinct; fused caudals present; nostril posterior to nasal suture; three supralabials (2+1); four infralabials; 152–162 middorsal scales; 141–152 midventral scales; 12–14 subcaudals; 10 scales around the middle of tail; seven dorsal scale rows uniformly brown, and seven ventral series pale brown (from PINTO-RICHARD et a. 2010). |
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| Etymology | Named after Latin brevissima, short, little, small, stunted. [“...The new snake will be given a name suggested by the exceedingly low dorsal scale count...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) |
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