Southern blind snake
| Southern blind snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Genus: | Rena |
| Species: | R. unguirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Rena unguirostris (Boulenger, 1902)
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The southern blind snake (Rena unguirostris) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3][4] The species is endemic to South America.
Geographic range
[edit]R. unguirostris is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.[2]
Reproduction
[edit]R. unguirostris is oviparous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Cacciali, P.; Giraudo, A.; Scott, N.; Scrocchi, G.; Arzamendia, V. (2017). "Rena unguirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T184107A61324874. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T184107A61324874.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d Rena unguirostris at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
Further reading
[edit]- Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)" Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Rena unguirostris, new combination).
- Boulenger GA (1902). "List of the Fishes, Batrachians, and Reptiles collected by the late Mr. P. O. Simons in the Provinces of Mendoza and Cordova, Argentina". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Seventh Series 9 (53): 336–339. (Glauconia unguirostris, new species, p. 338).
- Cacciali, Pier; Scott, Norman J.; Aquino Ortíz, Aida Luz; Fitzgerald, Lee A.; Smith, Paul (2016). The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico. 373 pp. (Rena unguirostris, p. 291).