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Liotyphlops wilderi (GARMAN, 1883)

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Higher TaxaAnomalepididae, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wilder's Blind Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Cega, Cobra-Fio 
SynonymTyphlops wilderi GARMAN 1883: 48
Helminthophis guentheri BOULENGER 1889: 361
Helminthophis guentheri — BOULENGER 1893: 6
Liotyphlops guentheri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 182
Helminthophis wilderi — HAMMAR 1908
Helminthophis wilderi — AMARAL 1924: 26
Liotyphlops wilderi — VANZOLINI 1948: 380
Liotyphlops wilderi — DIXON & KOFRON 1984: 251
Liotyphlops wilderi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 52
Liotyphlops wilderi — ROCHA et al. 2004
Liotyphlops guentheri — ROCHA et al. 2004
Liotyphlops wilderi — FREIRE et al. 2007
Liotyphlops wilderi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 398
Liotyphlops wilderi — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: São Cyriaco, Minas Gerais, Brazil (actually a Gold Mining Company)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ 5126, a 169 mm female, MCZ 19585 (formerly CU), a 185–187 mm female, FMNH 73387 (formerly CU & MCZ 18138), a 170 mm specimen (J.G. Branner, 1878–1879). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1574 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy mostly after DIXON & KOFRON 1984.

Distribution: Not in Paraguay (fide Cacciali et al. 2016). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Burt Green Wilder (1841-1925), a comparative anatomist and naturalist. 
References
  • Amaral, A. do 1924. Helminthophis. Proc. New England zool. Club 9: 25-30
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1889. Descriptions of new Typhlopidæ in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 4: 360-363 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Costa, Henrique C. 2022. Clarifying the type locality of Liotyphlops wilderi (Garman, 1883)(Serpentes, Anomalepididae), with comments on other reptiles from São Cyriaco, Minas Gerais. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98 (1): 129-136
  • Dixon J R; Kofron C P 1984. The Central and South American anomalepid snakes of the genus Liotyphlops. Amphibia-Reptilia 4 (2-4): 241-264 [1983] - get paper here
  • Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M, Francisco L Franco, Claudia Koch, Arthur Tiutenko, Juliana M Wingert, and Márcio Borges-Martins. 2023. More than Meets No Eyes: Taxonomic Status of a Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) Blindsnake from the Atlantic Rainforest. Zoologischer Anzeiger 303: 10–25 - get paper here
  • FREIRE, E.M.X.; U. CARAMASCHI & A.J.S. ARGOLO 2007. A new species of Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 1393: 19-26 - get paper here
  • Garman, S. 1883. On certain reptiles from Brazil and Florida. Sci. Observer, Boston, 4 (5 - 6): 47-48
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
  • Hammar, G. 1908. Note on the type specimen of a blind snake, Helminthophis wilderi (Garman), from Brazil. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 1: 334 - get paper here
  • Marra-Santos, Fidélis Júnio and Roberto E. Reis 2018. Two New Blind Snake Species of the Genus Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae), from Central and South Brazil. Copeia 106 (3): 507-514 - 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.
  • 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
  • Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha 2020. Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: e20206024 - get paper here
  • 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
  • ROCHA, CARLOS FREDERICO D.; HELENA G.BERGALLO, JOSÉ P. POMBAL JR., LENA GEISE, MONIQUE VAN SLUYS, RONALDO FERNANDES, ULISSES CARAMASCHI 2004. FAUNA DE ANFÍBIOS, RÉPTEIS E MAMÍFEROS DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO, SUDESTE DO BRASIL. Publ. Avul. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro (104): 3-23 - get paper here
  • Vanzolini, P. E. 1948. Notas sóbre os ofídios e lagartos da cachoeira de ema, no município de Pirassununga, estado de São Paulo. Rev. brasil. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 8: 377-400
  • 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.
 
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