Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Taxonomy of the family Anomalepididae Bibliography of the genus Helminthophis Biodiversity of the family Anomalepididae Genus Helminthophis Northwestern Blind Snakes, Vermiculate Blind Snakes Nordwestliche Blindschlangen Nordvestlige Ormeslanger 1860 Helmintophis Peters (type species: Typhlops frontalis Peters 1860) 1860 Idiotyphlops Jan in Jan & Sordelli (type species: Typhlops flavoterminatus Peters 1857) Contents: 3 species, of which 1 (33.3%) is endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Remarks: H. flavoterminatus may have been introduced to Mauritius, Indian Ocean (Hahn 1980). Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela. Helminthophis flavoterminatus Yellow-tailed Blind Snake Gelbschwanz-Blindschlange Gulhalet Ormeslange 1857 Typhlops flavoterminatus Peters Idiotyphlops flavoterminatus Jan 1860 Helminthophis flavoterminatus Bocage 1873 Liotyphlops flavoterminatus Medem 1969 1900 Typhlops mutilatus Werner (Wallach & Günther 1997) Remarks: May have been introduced to Mauritius, Indian Ocean (Hahn 1980; Wallach & Günther 1997). Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela. Helminthophis frontalis Pink-headed Blind Snake Rotkopf-Blindschlange Rødhovedet Ormeslange 1860 Typhlops frontalis Peters Helminthophis frontalis Peters 1881 Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama. Helminthophis praeocularis Rio Magdalena Blind Snake, Inter-Andean Blind Snake Rio-Magdalena-Blindschlange Rio Magdalena-ormeslange 1924 Helminthophis praeocularis Amaral Distribution: Colombia.