Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.
 
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Genus
Tetracheilostoma
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Lesser Antillean Thread Snakes
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Karibische Fadenschlangen
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Caribiske Trådslanger
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Eucephalus Fitzinger [not Eucephalus Laporte 1834 (Coleoptera)] (type species: Typhlops bilineatus Schlegel 1839) |
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Tetracheilostoma Jan in Jan & Sordelli (type species: Typhlops bilineatus Schlegel 1839) |
Contents:
3 species, which are all endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Previously regarded as a synonym of
Leptotyphlops.
Revalidated as a separate genus by Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges (2009).
Distribution:
Barbados,
Martinique,
Saint Lucia
(incl.
Maria Islands).
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Tetracheilostoma bilineatum
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Martinique Thread Snake, (Lesser Antillean Thread Snake)
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Martinique-Fadenschlange
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Martinique-trådslange
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Typhlops bilineatus Schlegel |
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Stenostoma bilineatum Duméril & Bibron 1844 |
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Epictia bilineatus Gray 1845 |
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Glauconia bilineata Boulenger 1893 |
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Leptotyphlops bilineata Barbour 1914 |
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Tetracheilostoma bilineatum Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges 2009 |
Remarks:
Records from Guadeloupe are questionable (Schwartz & Henderson 1991; McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999).
Records from Barbados refer to carlae.
Distribution:
Martinique.
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Tetracheilostoma breuili
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Saint Lucia Thread Snake
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Saint-Lucia-Fadenschlange
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Saint Lucia-trådslange
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Leptotyphlops breuili Hedges |
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Tetracheilostoma breuili Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges 2009 |
Distribution:
Saint Lucia
(incl.
Maria Islands).
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Tetracheilostoma carlae
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Barbados Thread Snake
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Barbados-Fadenschlange
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Barbados-trådslange
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Leptotyphlops carlae Hedges |
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Tetracheilostoma carlae Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges 2009 |
Remarks:
The world's smallest species of snake (Hedges 2008).
Previously confused with bilineatum.
Records of bilineatum from Barbados refer to carlae (Hedges 2008).
Distribution:
Barbados.
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