Epictia tricolor (OREJAS-MIRANDA & ZUG, 1974)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Three-colored Blind Snake
Synonym	Leptotyphlops tricolor OREJAS-MIRANDA & ZUG 1974 Leptotyphlops tricolor — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 45 Epictia tricolor — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Epictia tricolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 279
Distribution	Peru (Cajamarca, Ancash). Type locality: Yunca Pampa, 2700 m, Huaylas District, Huaylas Province, Ancash Deapartment, Peru.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MUSM = Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado", Lima 0669.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A Leptotyphlops of the tesselatus species group (Orejas- Miranda, 1964:4) characterized by broad contact between supraoculars and first pair of labials, differing from other members of the group except L. teaguei by its tricolor pattern of brick red, black, and cream longitudinal stripes, and differing from L. teaguei by absence of three narrow middorsal black stripes, presence of a cream colored mental region bisected by black stripe, and a higher number of dorsal scales (more than 300). 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 5442 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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Etymology	Named after Latin tri, three + Latin color, color; pigment; shade, tinge
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 Aguilar, César; Mikael Lundberg, Karen Siu-Ting y María Elena Jiménez 2007. Nuevos registros para la herpetofauna del departamento de Lima, descripción del renacuajo de Telmatobius rimac Schmidt, 1954 (Anura: Ceratophrydae) y una clave de los anfibios. Rev. peru. biol. 14(2): 209-216 - 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 Lehr, E.; Wallach, V. Köhler, G. & Aguilar, C. 2002. New species of tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptlia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru. Copeia 2002 (1): 131-136 - 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. 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 Orejas-Miranda, B.R. & ZUG, G.R. 1974. A new tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Serpentes) from Peru. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 87 (16): 167 - 174 - 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. Zug,G.R. 1977. Distribution and variation of Leptotyphlops tricolor. Copeia 1977 (4): 744-745 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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