Typhlops

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Infraorder:	Scolecophidia
Superfamily:	Typhlopoidea
Family:	Typhlopidae
Subfamily:	Typhlopinae
Genus:	Typhlops Oppel, 1811
Synonyms
Typhlops Oppel, 1811 Tiphlops Rafinesque, 1815 Typhlops — Hemprich, 1820 Typhlos Bonaparte, 1831 Aspidorhynchus Fitzinger, 1843 Gerrhopilus Fitzinger, 1843 Ophthalmidion A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 Cathetorhinus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 Anilios Gray, 1845 Argyrophis Gray, 1845 Meditoria Gray, 1845 Typhlops — Gistel, 1846 Diaphorotyphlops Jan in Jan & Sordelli, 1860 Typhlops — Boulenger, 1893 Typhlops — M.A. Smith, 1922 Ophthalmidium Loveridge, 1957^[1]

Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies.^[1] Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops, Amerotyphlops, Anilios, Antillotyphlops, Argyrophis, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Letheobia, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, and Xerotyphlops.

Species

Species^[2]	Taxon author^[2]	Common name
T. agoralionis	Thomas & Hedges, 2007	la Hotte blind snake
T. capitulatus	Richmond, 1964	Haitian pale-lipped blind snake, Richmond's worm snake
T. eperopeus	Thomas & Hedges, 2007	Bahoruco blind snake
T. gonavensis	Richmond, 1964	Gonâve Island worm snake
T. guadeloupensis	Richmond, 1966	Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake
T. hectus	Thomas, 1974	Tiburon Peninsula blind snake, Thomas's worm snake
T. jamaicensis	(Shaw, 1802)	Jamaican blind snake, Jamaica worm snake
T. leptolepis	Domínguez, Fong & Iturriaga, 2013
T. lumbricalis^T	(Linnaeus, 1758)	earthworm blind snake
T. oxyrhinus	Domínguez & Díaz, 2011
T. pachyrhinus	Domínguez & Díaz, 2011
T. proancylops	Thomas & Hedges, 2007	La Selle blind snake
T. pusillus	Barbour, 1914	Hispaniola worm snake
T. rostellatus	Stejneger, 1904	Puerto Rican worm snake
T. schwartzi	Thomas, 1989	Schwartz's worm snake
T. silus	Legler, 1959
T. sulcatus	Cope, 1868	island worm snake
T. sylleptor	Thomas & Hedges, 2007	Pestel blind snake
T. syntherus	Thomas, 1965	Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake
T. tetrathyreus	Thomas, 1989	Haitian worm snake
T. titanops	Thomas, 1989	titan worm snake

*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
^T) Type species.^[1]

References

Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Amerotyphlops, Antillotyphlops, Asiatyphlops, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, Xerotyphlops, new genera).
Oppel M (1811). Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben [= The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a Prodromus of a Natural History of the same ]. Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (Typhlops, new genus, pp. 54–55). (in German and Latin).

Taxon identifiers	Wikidata: Q2452082 Wikispecies: Typhlops CoL: 63VX2 EoL: 35417 Fauna Europaea: 214712 Fauna Europaea (new): 95f5802d-6c06-4db9-9370-1acab0409a69 Fossilworks: 38072 GBIF: 2471880 iNaturalist: 32558 IRMNG: 1349847 ITIS: 174342 NCBI: 39093 uBio: 212867