Epictia melanoterma (COPE, 1862)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Stenostoma melanoterma COPE 1862: 350 Stenostoma flavifrons WEYENBERGH in NAPP 1876 Stenostoma melanostoma GÜNTHER 1893: 85 (in error) Stenostoma melanosterna BOULENGER 1893 (in error) Leptotyphlops melanotermus — OREJAS-MIRANDA 1964: 4 Leptotyphlops melanotermus — LAURENT 1984: 32. Leptotyphlops melanotermus — WILLIAMS & FRANCINI 1991: 58 Leptotyphlops melanotermus — CEI 1993: 475 Leptotyphlops melanotermus — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 11 Leptotyphlops melanotermus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 37 Epictia melanoterma — WALLACH et al. 2014: 277 Epictia melanoterma — WALLACH 2016 Epictia melanoterma — WALLACH 2025
Distribution	S Peru ?, Bolivia, W/S Paraguay, N Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Corrientes) Type locality: Corrientes, Argentina.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ANSP 3297-98, was USNM 5406
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Leptotyphlops de cuerpo alargado, esbelto, con patrón de estrías color marrón, netas y espaciadas, atenuadas en la faz ventral: cromatismo que lo distingue prácticamente de weyrauchi, densamente pigmentado, con el cual evidencia grandes afinidades, pudiendo aquel hasta constituir una de sus formas cromáticas (Laurent 1984c). Se reconoce de albipuncta y striatula por un mayor número de dorsales y subcaudales, además que por detalles de coloración. (Cei 1993) Additional details (1542 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: previously considered as a synonym of E. albipuncta but more recent authors consider it as valid species.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949 Cope, E.D. 1862. Catalogues of the reptiles obtained during the explorations of the Parana Paraguay, Vermejo and Uruguay rivers, by Capt. Thos. J. Page, U.S.N.; and of those procured by Lieut. N. Michier, U. S. Top. Eng., Commander of the expedition conducting the survey of the Atrato River. I. The Paraguay collection. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 346-359. - 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 Leynaud, Gerardo C. and Enrique H. Bucher 1999. La fauna de serpientes del Chaco Sudamericano: diversidad, distribución geografica y estado de conservación. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Miscelanea (98):1-46 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Orejas-Miranda, B.R. 1964. Dos nuevos Leptotyphlopidae de Sur America. Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. nat. Montevideo, 8 (103): 1-7 Wallach, Van. 2016. Morphological review and taxonomic status of the Epictia phenops species group of Mesoamerica, with description of six new species and discussion of South American Epictia albifrons, E. goudotii, and E. tenella (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae). Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 216-374 - 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. Weyenbergh in NAPP 1876. nan Die Argentinische Republik (Buenos Aires): 164 Williams,J.D. & Francini,F. 1991. A checklist of the Argentine snakes. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 9 (1): 55-90
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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