Title
New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru
Publication Date
January 2002
Abstract
A new species of slender blind snake, Leptotyphlops alfredschmidti, is described from two localities (2940 and 3090 m) from the western Andean slopes of central Pern (Departamento de Ancash, Provincia de Huarmey). Leptotyphlops alfredschmidti is referred to the Leptotyphlops tesselatus group. The new species shares with Leptotyphlops teaguei and Leptotyphlops tricolor a tricolor body pattern of red, black, and yellowish longitudinal stripes but differs from all members of the group in several features of coloration pattern and pholidosis.
Disciplines
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Recommended Citation
Lehr, Edgar; Wallach, Van; Kohler, Gunther; and Aguilar, Cesar, "New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru" (2002). Scholarship. 48.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bio_scholarship/48