New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru

Edgar Lehr; Van Wallach; Gunther Kohler; Cesar Aguilar

New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru

Edgar Lehr, Van Wallach, Gunther Kohler, Cesar Aguilar

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

A new species of slender blind snake, Leptotyphlops alfredschmidti, is described from two localities (2940 and 3090 m) from the western Andean slopes of central Pern (Departamento de Ancash, Provincia de Huarmey). Leptotyphlops alfredschmidti is referred to the Leptotyphlops tesselatus group. The new species shares with Leptotyphlops teaguei and Leptotyphlops tricolor a tricolor body pattern of red, black, and yellowish longitudinal stripes but differs from all members of the group in several features of coloration pattern and pholidosis.

Original language	American English
Journal	Copeia
Volume	1
State	Published - 2002

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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