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Epictia weyrauchi (OREJAS-MIRANDA, 1964)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeptotyphlops weyrauchi OREJAS-MIRANDA 1964: 1
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — FREIBERG 1982
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — CEI 1993
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — LEYNAUD & BUCHER 1999: 12
Leptotyphlops weyrauchi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 46
Epictia weyrauchi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 284
Epictia weyrauchi — WALLACH 2016
Epictia weyrauchi — WALLACH 2025 
DistributionArgentina (Tucuman, Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Cordoba)

Type locality: Ciudad de Tucuman, Provincia de Tucuman, Argentina.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MHNM (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Montevideo) CH 911 [weyrauchi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3980 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: previously considered as a synonym of E. albipuncta but more recent authors consider it as valid species. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Wolfgang Weyrauch of the Miguel Lillo Institute in Tucumán, Argentina, who sent the type to Orejas-Miranda. 
References
  • Acosta, Rodrigo; Blanco, Graciela Mirta; Galdeano, Ana Paula; Gómez Alés, Rodrigo; Acosta, Juan Carlos 2017. Primer registro de Epictia albipuncta Burmeister, 1861 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) en la provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Cuad. herpetol. 32 (2): - get paper here
  • 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
  • Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here
  • Eversole, C. B., Powell, R. L., Rivas, L. R., & Lizarro, D. E. 2024. Reptile Biodiversity and Vulnerability in Bolivia’s Beni Department: Informing Conservation Priorities in a Neglected Frontier. Diversity, 16(6), 335 - get paper here
  • Fabrezi, M.;Marcus, A.;Scrocchi, G. 1985. Contribución al conocimiento de los Leptotyphlopidae de Argentina. I. Leptotyphlops weyrauchi y Leptotyphlops albipuncta. Cuadernos de Herpetología 1 (2): 1-20 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Freiberg, M.A. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 189 pp. - get paper here
  • Giraudo, A. R., and G. J. Scrocchi 2002. Argentinian Snakes: An Annotated Checklist. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (132): 1-53 - get paper here
  • Kacoliris F.P.; Berkunsky I. & Williams J. 2006. Herpetofauna of Impenetrable, Argentinean Great Chaco. Phyllomedusa 5 (2): 149-158 - get paper here
  • Kretzschmar, Sonia 2006. Revisión histórica y redescripción de Leptotyphlops albipunctus (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Cuadernos de Herpetologia 19 (2): 43-56 - 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.
  • 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. 1964. Dos nuevos Leptotyphlopidae de Sur America. Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. nat. Montevideo, 8 (103): 1-7
  • Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here
  • Scrocchi G. 1990. CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE OF ARGENTINA II. NEW DATA ON LEPTOTYPHLOPS-AUSTRALIS FREIBERG AND OREJAS MIRANDA 1968 [in Spanish]. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 39 (2): 113-114
  • 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.
  • Williams,J.D. & Francini,F. 1991. A checklist of the Argentine snakes. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 9 (1): 55-90
 
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