{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = AB069 Typhlops Head.JPG | taxon = Typhlops | authority = [[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel]], 1811 | display_parents = 4 | synonyms = *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|Oppel, 1811}} *''Tiphlops'' <br />{{small|[[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815}} *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Wilhelm Hemprich|Hemprich]], 1820}} *''Typhlos'' <br />{{small|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1831}} *''Aspidorhynchus'' <br />{{small|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843}} *''Gerrhopilus'' <br />{{small|Fitzinger, 1843}} *''Ophthalmidion'' <br />{{small|[[André Marie Constant Duméril|A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1844}} *''Cathetorhinus'' <br />{{small|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844}} *''Anilios'' <br />{{small|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1845}} *''Argyrophis'' <br />{{small|Gray, 1845}} *''Meditoria'' <br />{{small|Gray, 1845}} *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel|Gistel]], 1846}} *''Diaphorotyphlops'' <br />{{small|[[Giorgio Jan|Jan]] ''in'' Jan & [[:fr:Ferdinando Sordelli|Sordelli]], 1860}} *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}} *''Typhlops'' <br />{{small|— [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1922}} *''Ophthalmidium'' <br />{{small|[[Arthur Loveridge|Loveridge]], 1957}}<ref name="McD99">[[:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jonathan A. Campbell|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).</ref> }}

'''''Typhlops''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Scolecophidia|blind snakes]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Typhlopidae]]. The genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[West Indies]].<ref name="McD99"/> Some species which were formerly placed in the genus ''Typhlops'' have been moved to the [[Genus|genera]] ''[[Afrotyphlops]], [[Amerotyphlops]], [[Anilios]], [[Antillotyphlops]], [[Argyrophis]], [[Cubatyphlops]], [[Indotyphlops]], [[Letheobia]], [[Madatyphlops]], [[Malayotyphlops]]'', and ''[[Xerotyphlops]]''.

==Species== {|cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 border=1 style="border-collapse: collapse;" !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Species<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=174342 |taxon=''Typhlops ''|accessdate=18 August 2007}}</ref> !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Taxon author<ref name="ITIS"/> !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Subsp.*<ref name="ITIS"/> !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Common name !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Geographic range |- |''[[Typhlops agoralionis|T. agoralionis]]'' |[[Richard Thomas (herpetologist)|Thomas]] & [[Stephen Blair Hedges|Hedges]], 2007 |align="center"|0 |[[Massif de la Hotte|la Hotte]] blind snake | |- |''[[Typhlops capitulatus|T. capitulatus]]'' |[[Neil D. Richmond|Richmond, 1964]] |align="center"|0 |[[Haiti]]an pale-lipped blind snake, [[Neil D. Richmond|Richmond's]] worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops eperopeus|T. eperopeus]]'' |Thomas & Hedges, 2007 |align="center"|0 |[[Baoruco Mountain Range|Bahoruco]] blind snake | |- |''[[Typhlops gonavensis|T. gonavensis]]'' |Richmond, 1964 |align="center"|0 |[[Gonâve Island]] worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops guadeloupensis|T. guadeloupensis]]'' |Richmond, 1966 |align="center"|0 |Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops hectus|T. hectus]]'' |Thomas, 1974 |align="center"|0 |[[Tiburon Peninsula]] blind snake, Thomas's worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops jamaicensis|T. jamaicensis]]'' |([[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1802) |align="center"|0 |[[Jamaica]]n blind snake, Jamaica worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops leptolepis|T. leptolepis]]'' |[[Michel Domínquez|Domínguez]], [[Ansel Fong G.|Fong]] & [[Manuel Iturriaga|Iturriaga]], 2013 |align="center"|0 | | |- |''[[Typhlops lumbricalis|T. lumbricalis]]''<span style="font-size:100%;"><sup>T</sup></span> |([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]) |align="center"|0 |earthworm blind snake | |- |''[[Typhlops oxyrhinus|T. oxyrhinus]]'' |Domínguez & [[Raúl E. Díaz|Díaz]], 2011 |align="center"|0 | | |- |''[[Typhlops pachyrhinus|T. pachyrhinus]]'' |Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 |align="center"|0 | | |- |''[[Typhlops proancylops|T. proancylops]]'' |Thomas & Hedges, 2007 |align="center"|0 |La Selle blind snake | |- |''[[Typhlops pusillus|T. pusillus]]'' |[[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]], 1914 |align="center"|0 |[[Hispaniola]] worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops rostellatus|T. rostellatus]]'' |[[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1904 |align="center"|0 |[[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops schwartzi|T. schwartzi]]'' |Thomas, 1989 |align="center"|0 |[[Albert Schwartz (zoologist)|Schwartz's]] worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops silus|T. silus]]'' |[[John Marshall Legler|Legler]], 1959 |align="center"|0 | | |- |''[[Typhlops sulcatus|T. sulcatus]]'' |[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1868 |align="center"|0 |island worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops sylleptor|T. sylleptor]]'' |Thomas & Hedges, 2007 |align="center"|0 |Pestel blind snake | |- |''[[Typhlops syntherus|T. syntherus]]'' |Thomas, 1965 |align="center"|0 |Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops tetrathyreus|T. tetrathyreus]]'' |Thomas, 1989 |align="center"|0 |Haitian worm snake | |- |''[[Typhlops titanops|T. titanops]]'' |Thomas, 1989 |align="center"|0 |titan worm snake | |- |} ''*) Not including the nominate subspecies.''<br/> <span style="font-size:100%;"><sup>T</sup></span>) [[Type species]].<ref name="McD99"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{NRDB genus|genus=Typhlops|date=29 August|year=2007}}

==Further reading== {{Commons}} *[[Stephen Blair Hedges|Hedges SB]], [[Angela B. Marion|Marion AB]], [[Kelly M. Lipp|Lipp KM]], [[Julie Marin|Marin J]], [[Nicolas Vidal|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). *[[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|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.&nbsp;54–55). (in German and Latin).

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