New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru

Edgar Lehr; Van Wallach; Gunther Köhler; Cesar Aguilar

doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0131:NSOTLR]2.0.CO;2

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Edgar Lehr,¹ Van Wallach,¹ Gunther Köhler,¹ Cesar Aguilar¹

¹(EL) Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum fur Tierkunde, A.-B.-Meyer-Bau, Konigsbrucker Landstrase 159, D-01109 Dresden, Germany; (VW) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 021

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 Peru (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.

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

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Edgar Lehr, Van Wallach, Gunther Köhler, and Cesar Aguilar "New Species of Tricolor Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Peru," Copeia 2002(1), 131-136, (1 February 2002). https://doi.org/10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0131:NSOTLR]2.0.CO;2

Accepted: 16 July 2001; Published: 1 February 2002

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