Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies. Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops, Amerotyphlops, Anilios, Antillotyphlops, Argyrophis, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Letheobia, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, and Xerotyphlops.
Species SpeciesTaxon authorSubsp.*Common nameGeographic rangeT. agoralionisThomas & Hedges, 20070la Hotte blind snakeT. capitulatusRichmond, 19640Haitian pale-lipped blind snake, Richmond's worm snakeT. eperopeusThomas & Hedges, 20070Bahoruco blind snake T. gonavensisRichmond, 19640Gonâve Island worm snakeT. guadeloupensisRichmond, 19660Guadeloupe blind snake, Guadeloupe worm snakeT. hectusThomas, 19740Tiburon Peninsula blind snake, Thomas's worm snakeT. jamaicensis(Shaw, 1802)0Jamaican blind snake, Jamaica worm snakeT. leptolepisDomínguez, Fong & Iturriaga, 20130T. lumbricalisT(Linnaeus, 1758)0earthworm blind snakeT. oxyrhinusDomínguez & Díaz, 20110T. pachyrhinusDomínguez & Díaz, 20110T. proancylopsThomas & Hedges, 20070La Selle blind snakeT. pusillusBarbour, 19140Hispaniola worm snakeT. rostellatusStejneger, 19040Puerto Rican worm snakeT. schwartziThomas, 19890Schwartz's worm snakeT. silusLegler, 1959 0T. sulcatusCope, 18680island worm snakeT. sylleptorThomas & Hedges, 2007 0Pestel blind snake T. syntherusThomas, 19650Barahona Peninsula blind snake, Barahona worm snakeT. tetrathyreusThomas, 19890Haitian worm snakeT. titanopsThomas, 19890titan worm snake *) Not including the nominate subspecies. T) Type species.
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Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Amerotyphlops, Antillotyphlops, Asiatyphlops, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, Xerotyphlops, new genera). Oppel M (1811). Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben [= The Orders, Families and Genera of the Reptiles, as a Prodromus of a Natural History of the same ]. Munich: J. Lindauer. xii + 86 pp. (Typhlops, new genus, pp. 54–55). (in German and Latin).