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Liotyphlops anops (COPE, 1899)

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Higher TaxaAnomalepididae, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cope's Blind Snake 
SynonymHelminthophis anops COPE 1899: 10
Helminthophis anops — AMARAL 1924: 26
Helminthophis anops — AMARAL 1933
Liotyphlops metae DUNN 1944: 49
Liotyphlops anops Dunn 1944: 48
Liotyphlops anops — DIXON & KOFRON 1984: 259
Liotyphlops anops — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 50
Liotyphlops anops — FREIRE et al. 2007
Liotyphlops anops — WALLACH et al. 2014: 397 
DistributionColombia (Santander, Cundinamarca)

Type locality: “near Bogota” (fide DIXON & KOFRON 1984).

metae: Type locality: “Villavicencio, Meta [Colombia], 498 meters”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype. AMNH R-17540, at least 200 mm TL (specimen broken); paralectotype: AMNH 9550
Holotype: MLS 8 [metae] 
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CommentSynonymy: Dixon and Kofron (1984: 259) synonymized metae with anops. 
EtymologyNamed after Greek a- (α-), privative partícle + Greek ops (ὄψ), eye. [“...Eye invisible...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Amaral, A. do. 1933. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XXIX. Novas notas sobre especies da Colombia. Mem. Inst. Butantan 7: 105-123 [1932] - get paper here
  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • Blanco-Torres, Argelina; Lina Báez S., Edgar Patiño-Flores, Juan M. Renjifo-R. 2013. Herpetofauna from the middle valley of the Ranchería river, La Guajira, Colombia. Rev. Biodivers. Neotrop. 3 (2): 113-22 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1899. Contributions to the herpetology of New Granada and Argentina, with descriptions of new forms. Philadelphia Mus. Sci. Bull. (1): 1-19 - get paper here
  • Dixon J R; Kofron C P 1984. The Central and South American anomalepid snakes of the genus Liotyphlops. Amphibia-Reptilia 4 (2-4): 241-264 [1983] - get paper here
  • Dunn, E.R. 1944. A review of the Colombian snakes of the families Typhlopidae and Leptotyphlopidae. Caldasia 3 (11): 47-55 - get paper here
  • FREIRE, E.M.X.; U. CARAMASCHI & A.J.S. ARGOLO 2007. A new species of Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 1393: 19-26 - get paper here
  • Linares-Vargas, C. A., Bolívar-García, W., Herrera-Martínez, A., Osorio-Domínguez, D., Ospina, O. E., Thomas, R., & Daza, J. D. 2021. The status of the anomalepidid snake Liotyphlops albirostris and the revalidation of three taxa based on morphology and ecological niche models. The Anatomical Record, 304( 10), 2264– 2278 - get paper here
  • Marra Santos FJ 2023. A new species of the genus Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes, Anomalepididae) from Colombia and the synonymization of Liotyphlops beui (Amaral, 1924) with Liotyphlops ternetzii (Boulenger, 1896). ZooKeys 1146: 87–114 - get paper here
  • Marra-Santos, Fidélis Júnio and Roberto E. Reis 2018. Two New Blind Snake Species of the Genus Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae), from Central and South Brazil. Copeia 106 (3): 507-514 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Muñoz-Saba, Yaneth; Nathaly Calvo-Roa, Paul Andrés Gómez-Sandoval, Diego Casallas-Pabón John Douglas Lynch, Lucas S. Barrientos, Diego A. Gómez-Sánchez. 2019. Guía de campo de los mamíferos, anfibios y reptiles de Santa María (Boyacá, Colombia). Serie Guías de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. N° 23. Bogotá D.C. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá. 317 p - get paper here
  • Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
  • Silva Haad, J.J., Franco, F.L. & Maldonado, J. 2008. Una nueva especie de Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes, Scolecophidia, Anomalepidae) del sur de la Amazonia Colombiana. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 295 - 300
  • 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.
 
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