Epictia guayaquilensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Familia: Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamilia: Epictinae
Genus: Epictia
Species: Epictia guayaquilensis

Name

Epictia guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & Peters, 1970)

• Holotype: ZMB 4508, collected by C. Reiss in 1860.
• Type locality: “Guayaquil an der Pazifikküste von Ecuador”.

Combinations

• Leptotyphlops guayaquilensis Orejas-Miranda & Peters, 1970: 439 [original combination]
• Tricheilostoma guayaquilensis — Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges, 2009 [subsequent combination]
• Trilepida guayaquilensis — Hedges, 2011 [subsequent combination]
• Epictia guayaquilensis — Koch et al., 2021 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Orejas-Miranda, B.R. & Peters, G. 1970. Eine neue Schlankblindschlange (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) aus Ecuador. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 46(2): 439–441. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.19700460210
• Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244(1): 1–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Epictia guayaquilensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 May 2023.
• Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2017. IUCN: Epictia guayaquilensis  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T203648A2769361. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T203648A2769361.en.

Vernacular names

English: Guayaquila Blind Snake