Snakes of
Mexico  
Typical Blind Snakes
(Typhlopidae)  

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Checklist
General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial.
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Snakes (Serpentes)
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Species
References
 Family Typhlopidae (Typical Blind Snakes)
Genus Amerotyphlops (American Blind Snakes)
 
Amerotyphlops microstomus

Yucatan Blind Snake

Cedeno-Vazquez, Calderon-Mandujano & Pozo 2003 Dixon & Hendricks 1979 Flores-Villela 1993 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Heimes 2016 Lee 1980 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McDiarmid, Campbell & Toure 1999 Monter-Pozos, Nahuat-Cervera & Aviles-Novelo 2020 Smith & Taylor 1945 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Amerotyphlops tenuis

Coffee Blind Snake

Barragan-Vazquez, Rios-Rodas, Fucsko, Porras, Mata-Silva, Rocha, DeSantis, Garcia-Padilla, Johnson & Wilson 2022 Dixon & Hendricks 1979 Flores-Villela 1993 Fugler & Dixon 1958 [as Typhlops basimaculatus] Garcia-Vazquez, Canseco-Marquez, Aguilar-Lopez, Solano-Zavaleta & Maceda-Cruz 2009 Garcia-Vazquez, Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Lopez, Melgarejo Velez, Jimenez & Canseco-Marquez 2005 Lopez-Luna 2013 Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 McDiarmid, Campbell & Toure 1999 Perez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 Smith & Taylor 1945 [as Typhlops basimaculatus] Torres-Hernandez, Ramirez-Bautista, Cruz-Elizalde, Hernandez-Salinas, Berriozabal-Islas, DeSantis, Johnson, Rocha, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Fucsko & Wilson 2021 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Pina, Garcia-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017