Antillotyphlops platycephalus (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1844)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Typhlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Puerto Rican White-tailed Blindsnake, Flathead Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops platycephalus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 293 Typhlops platycephalus — JAN 1864 Typhlops platycephalus — BOULENGER 1893: 30 Typhlops richardi platycephalus — THOMAS 1966 Typhlops platycephalus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 113 Typhlops platycephalus — KORNILIOS et al. 2013 Antillotyphlops platycephalus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Typhlops platycephalus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Antillotyphlops platycephalus — NAGY et al. 2015 Typhlops platycephalus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 769 Typhlops platycephalus — SZYNDLAR & GEORGALIS 2023
Distribution	Puerto Rico Bank, Caicos Islands Type locality: "Puerto Rico"
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 1066 fide HEDGES & THOMAS 1991 (not MNHN 1060).
Diagnosis
Comment
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1844. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol.6. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 609 pp. - get paper here Harper, S., Fallick, S., Hake, T., Feliciano-Rivera, F. A., & Elden, J. M. 2023. Opportunistic Records of Herpetofauna in Mainland Puerto Rico with photographic accounts of species and habitat. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 58(9), 150-157 - get paper here Hedges, S. B. and R. Thomas. 1991. Cryptic species of snakes (Typhlopidae: Typhlops) from the Puerto Rico Bank detected by protein electrophoresis. Herpetologica 47: 448-459. - 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 Jan, G. 1864. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 3. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris - get paper here Kornilios, P.; S. Giokas, P. Lymberakis, R. Sindaco 2013. Phylogenetic position, origin and biogeography of Palearctic and Socotran blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (1): 35–41 - get paper here Legler, J.M. 1959. A new blind snake (genus Typhlops) from Cuba. Herpetologica 15 (2): 105-112 - 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. NAGY, ZOLTÁN T.; ANGELA B. MARION, FRANK GLAW, AURÉLIEN MIRALLES,<br />JOACHIM NOPPER, MIGUEL VENCES & S. BLAIR HEDGES 2015. Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). Zootaxa 4040 (1): 031–047 - get paper here Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here Reynolds RG, Niemiller, ML. 2010. Typhlops platycephalus (Puerto Rican White-tailed Blindsnake). Distribution. Caribbean Herpetology 15: 1 - get paper here Rios-López, N. & Aide, T.M. 2007. Herpetofaunal dynomics during secondary succession. Herpetologica 63 (1): 35-50 - get paper here Szyndlar Z, Georgalis GL 2023. An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 717-886 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/434258688798735 Google images

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