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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: ANOMALEPIDIDAE * * * TYPHLOPHIS 



TYPHLOPHIS Fitzinger 



1843 Typhlophis Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 24. Type-species: Typhlops squamosus Schlegel. 



1844 Cephalolepis Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., 6: 314. Type-species: Cephalolepis leucocephalus 



Oumeril and Bibron. 



Distribution: As for single known species. 

 Content: One species. 



TYPHLOPHIS SQUAMOSUS (Schlegel) 



1835 Typhlops squamosus Schlegel, Abbildungen . . . Amphibien, text: 36; Abbild.: pi. 32, figs. 3-12. 



Type-locality: Cayenne. 

 1844 Cephalolepis leucocephalus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., 6: 315. Type-locality: French Guiana. 

 1843 Typhloph is squamosus — Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 24. 

 I853 Typhloph i s squamosus — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 1: 57. 



Distribution: Trinidad; Atlantic coast of South America from Guianas to Grao Para, Brazil. 



