Leptotyphlops bressoni

Leptotyphlops bressoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Leptotyphlops
Species: L. bressoni
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops bressoni
Taylor, 1939

Leptotyphlops bressoni, or the Michoacán slender blind snake, is a species of snake in the Leptotyphlopidae family.[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, bressoni, is in honor of Julio Raymond Bresson, who collected the type specimen.[3]

References

  1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, p. 38).

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