Epictia striatula (SMITH & LAUFE, 1945)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Leptotyphlops striatula SMITH & LAUFE 1945: 29 Leptotyphlops melanotermus PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 (part.) Leptotyphlops striatula — CEI 1993 Leptotyphlops striatulus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 43 Epictia striatula — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Epictia striatula — WALLACH et al. 2014: 278 Epictia striatula — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Bolivia, Argentina (Salta), Peru, Brazil Type locality: "Yamachi" = Yanacachi, Sur de Yungas, Bolivia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 98889.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. A member of the albifrons section of the genus, having large supraoculars, a normal snout, two supralabials, a lined pattern, a yellowish snout and tail-tip, a total length/tail ratio of 12.7, and a total length/diameter ratio of 41.6. Related to rufidorsum and tenella, having the supraoculars enlarged more than is usual in the albifrons section, and narrowly separated from the 1st supralabials. Differs from these by having 12 scale rows around the tail, 249 dorsal scales, 23 subcaudals, and every scale row with a very distinet, broad median dark stripe. (Smith & Laufe 1945) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4428 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Has been considered a synonym of Leptotyphlops melanotermus by HAHN 1980.
Etymology	Named after Latin striatus, provided with channels; groove; wrinkle + Latin -ula, diminutive suffix. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)
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 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 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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here 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 Smith, H.M. & LAUFE, L. E. 1945. A new South American Leptotyphlops. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 58: 29-32 - 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 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/395645919326679 Google images

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