# Typhlops > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Typhlops > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Typhlops.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhlops > Source revision: 1354645856 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Genus of snakes Typhlops Scientific classification 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](/source/Genus) of [blind snakes](/source/Scolecophidia) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Typhlopidae](/source/Typhlopidae). The genus is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies).[1] Some species which were formerly placed in the genus *Typhlops* have been moved to the [genera](/source/Genus) *[Afrotyphlops](/source/Afrotyphlops), [Amerotyphlops](/source/Amerotyphlops), [Anilios](/source/Anilios), [Antillotyphlops](/source/Antillotyphlops), [Argyrophis](/source/Argyrophis), [Cubatyphlops](/source/Cubatyphlops), [Indotyphlops](/source/Indotyphlops), [Letheobia](/source/Letheobia), [Madatyphlops](/source/Madatyphlops), [Malayotyphlops](/source/Malayotyphlops)*, and *[Xerotyphlops](/source/Xerotyphlops)*. ## Species Species[2] Taxon author[2] Subsp.*[2] Common name Geographic range T. agoralionis Thomas & Hedges, 2007 0 la Hotte blind snake T. capitulatus Richmond, 1964 0 Haitian pale-lipped blind snake, Richmond's worm snake T. eperopeus Thomas & Hedges, 2007 0 Bahoruco blind snake T. gonavensis Richmond, 1964 0 Gonâve Island worm snake T. guadeloupensis Richmond, 1966 0 Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snake T. hectus Thomas, 1974 0 Tiburon Peninsula blind snake, Thomas's worm snake T. jamaicensis (Shaw, 1802) 0 Jamaican blind snake, Jamaica worm snake T. leptolepis Domínguez, Fong & Iturriaga, 2013 0 T. lumbricalisT (Linnaeus, 1758) 0 earthworm blind snake T. oxyrhinus Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 0 T. pachyrhinus Domínguez & Díaz, 2011 0 T. proancylops Thomas & Hedges, 2007 0 La Selle blind snake T. pusillus Barbour, 1914 0 Hispaniola worm snake T. rostellatus Stejneger, 1904 0 Puerto Rican worm snake T. schwartzi Thomas, 1989 0 Schwartz's worm snake T. silus Legler, 1959 0 T. sulcatus Cope, 1868 0 island worm snake T. sylleptor Thomas & Hedges, 2007 0 Pestel blind snake T. syntherus Thomas, 1965 0 Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snake T. tetrathyreus Thomas, 1989 0 Haitian worm snake T. titanops Thomas, 1989 0 titan worm snake **) Not including the nominate subspecies.* T) [Type species](/source/Type_species).[1] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-McD99_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-McD99_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-McD99_1-2) [McDiarmid RW](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wallace_McDiarmid), [Campbell JA](/source/Jonathan_A._Campbell), Touré T (1999). *Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1*. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-893777-00-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-893777-00-6) (series). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-893777-01-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-893777-01-4) (volume). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ITIS_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ITIS_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ITIS_2-2) ["*Typhlops*"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174342). [Integrated Taxonomic Information System](/source/Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System). Retrieved 18 August 2007. ## External links - *[Typhlops](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?submit=Search&genus=Typhlops)* at the [Reptarium.cz Reptile Database](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/). Accessed 29 August 2007. ## Further reading Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Typhlops](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Typhlops). - [Hedges SB](/source/Stephen_Blair_Hedges), [Marion AB](/source/Angela_B._Marion), [Lipp KM](/source/Kelly_M._Lipp), [Marin J](/source/Julie_Marin), [Vidal N](/source/Nicolas_Vidal) (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](/source/Nicolaus_Michael_Oppel) (1811). *Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben* [= *The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a [Prodromus](/source/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 Typhlops Wikidata: Q2452082 Wikispecies: Typhlops CoL: 63VX2 EoL: 35417 Fauna Europaea: 214712 Fauna Europaea (new): 95f5802d-6c06-4db9-9370-1acab0409a69 GBIF: 2471880 iNaturalist: 32558 IRMNG: 1349847 ITIS: 174342 NCBI: 39093 Open Tree of Life: 89832 Paleobiology Database: 38072 Authority control databases National Israel Other Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Typhlops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhlops) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhlops?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.