Siagonodon borrichianus (DEGERBØL, 1923)

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Higher Taxa	Leptotyphlopidae, Epictinae, Epictini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Degerbol's Blind Snake
Synonym	Glauconia borrichiana DEGERBØL 1923: 113 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — AMARAL 1929: 139 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 23 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — BERNILS et al. 2007 Siagonodon borrichianus — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009 Leptotyphlops borrichianus — SCROCCHI et al. 2010: 207 Siagonodon borrichianus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 665
Distribution	W Argentina (Mendoza to Rio Negro, NW Patagonia) Type locality: Santa Rosa, Mendoza, Argentina.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMUC, Universitetets Zoologiske Museum Denmark, no. R539.
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: see Martins et al. 2020: 852 (Fig. 12) for a map of all 4 Siagonodon species, the sister clade of Habrophallos.
Etymology	named after Ole Borch. See this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Borch
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 Amaral,A. do 1930. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929] - get paper here Aragón-Traverso, J H; Sanabria, E A; Quiroga, L B & Espinoza, R E; 2019. Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbøl’s Blindsnake) Predation. Herpetological Review 50 (3): 602 - get paper here Degerbøl, M. 1923. Description of a new snake of the genus Glauconia, from Mendoza. Vidensk. Meddel. dansk naturhist. Foren., Stockholm, 76:113-114 - get paper here Francisco, Bárbara C. S.; Roberta R. Pinto, and Daniel S. Fernandes 2018. Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Siagonodon Peters, 1881, with a Report on Morphological Variation in Siagonodon cupinensis (Bailey and Carvalho, 1946) (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Copeia 106 (2): 321-328 - get paper here Freiberg, M.A. 1951. Nuevo hallazgo de Leptolyphlops borrichiana Degerbol en Argentina. Physis 20 (58): 259-262 Fulvio-Perez, Cristian Hernan; Daniel Roberto Pérez and Luciano Javier Ávila 2010. New records of Leptotyphlops borrichianus Degerbøl, 1923 in northwestern Patagonia. Herpetology Notes 3: 065-67 Martínez, T A; Rodriguez Muñoz, M J; Fava, G; Acosta, J C; Blanco, G & Ruiz, E; 2019. Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbol’s Blind Snake) Avian predation. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 403-404 - get paper here Martins AR, Koch C, Pinto R, Folly M, Fouquet A, Passos P. 2019. From the inside out: Discovery of a new genus of threadsnakes based on anatomical and molecular data, with discussion of the leptotyphlopid hemipenial morphology. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Rersearch - get paper here Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Scrocchi, Gustavo J.; Cristian S. Abdala,Javier Nori, Hussam Zaher 2010. Reptiles de la provincia de Río Negro, Argentina. Fondo Ed. Rionegrino, 249 pp. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Borch Google images

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