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Snakes (Serpentes)    Genera Acutotyphlops Sharp-nosed Blind Snakes Afrotyphlops African Giant Blind Snakes Amerotyphlops American Blind Snakes Anilios Australian Blind Snakes Antillotyphlops Eastern Antillean Blind Snakes Argyrophis Southeast Asian Blind Snakes Cubatyphlops Cuban Blind Snakes Cyclotyphlops Malawa Blind Snake Grypotyphlops Indian Beaked Blind Snake Indotyphlops South Asian Blind Snakes Letheobia African Gracile Blind Snakes Madatyphlops Malagasy Blind Snakes Malayotyphlops Malay Archipelago Blind Snakes Ramphotyphlops Western Pacific Blind Snakes Rhinotyphlops African Beaked Blind Snakes Sundatyphlops Lesser Sunda Blind Snakes Typhlops Afro-Caribbean Blind Snakes Virgotyphlops Brahminy Blind Snake Xerotyphlops Desert Blind Snakes

Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Biodiversity of the family Typhlopidae Bibliography of the family Typhlopidae Typhlopidae Typical Blind Snakes Eigentliche Blindschlangen     Egentlige Ormeslanger Contents: Endemicity: 19 genera of which 2 (10.5%) are endemic   0% 100% 276 species of which 208 (75.4%) are endemic   0% 100% Remarks: Previously included the species now placed in the families Anomalepididae, Gerrhopilidae and Xenotyphlopidae. Wallach (2003) recommended the restriction of the name Worm Snakes to the family Leptotyphlopidae, whereas the family Typhlopidae should be called Blind Snakes. Although the latter suggestion has been used in most publications, both before and after Wallach's suggestion, the former has not. Most works have retained the name Thread Snakes for the familiy Leptotyphlopidae (e.g., Crother (ed.) 2008; Liner & Casas-Andreu 2008), presumably because the name Thread Snakes has been used only for this family, whereas the name Worm Snakes has been used for all the families mentioned above, as well as for other snake genera (e.g., Carphophis, Trachischium, Gerrhopilus). Distribution:  Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies, SE. Europe, Africa, Middle East, S. Asia, Malay Archipelago, Australia. Reported from: Afghanistan, Albania, American Samoa, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Navassa, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Eustatius, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.