Leptotyphlops bilineatus

Taxobox
name = "Leptotyphlops bilineatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Leptotyphlopidae
genus = "Leptotyphlops"
species = "L. bilineatus"
binomial = "Leptotyphlops bilineatus"
binomial_authority = (Schlegel, 1839)
synonyms = * "Typhlops bilineatus" - Schlegel, 1839
* "Typhlops" ("Eucephalus") "bilineatus" - Fitzinger, 1843
* "Stenostoma bilineatum" - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
* "Epicrata bilineatus" - Gray, 1845
* "St" ["enostoma"] . ("Tetracheilostoma") "bilineatum" - Jan & Sordelli, 1861
* "S" ["tenostoma"] . ("Tetracheilostoma") "bilineatum" - Jan, 1863
* "Glauconia bilineata" - Boulenger, 1893
* "Leptotyphlops bilineata" - Barbour, 1914
* "Leptotyphlops bilineatus" - Hahn, 1980 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).]

:"Common names: thread snake.""Leptotyphlops bilineatus" is a harmless blind snake species found in the Lesser Antilles. No subspecies are currently recognized.ITIS|ID=634438|taxon="Leptotyphlops bilineatus"|year=2007|date=1 September]

Description

According to the San Diego Zoo, this is the world's smallest snake, being small enough to slither through a pencil if the lead were removed. The typical length is 11 cm (4.5 in). [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-snake.html Reptiles: Snake] at [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/ San Diego Zoo] . Accessed 3 June 2008.] However, the newly described "L. carlae" (Hedges, 2008) is reported to be even smaller.Hedges SB. 2008. At the lower size limit in snakes: two new species of threadsnakes (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae, "Leptotyphlops") from the Lesser Antilles. Zootaxa 1841:1-30. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01841p030.pdf PDF] at [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Zootaxa] . Accessed 28 July 2008.]

Geographic range

Found in the islands of the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, St. Lucia and Barbados. A specimen from "Guadeloupe" was reported by Duméril and Bibron (1844:331), but none are known from that island. The type locality given is "Vaterland Martinique."

ee also

* List of leptotyphlopid species and subspecies.
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