Leptotyphlops dulcis (Texas slender blind snake) Description Leptotyphlops dulcis
Date 15 March 2006
Author Photographer: LA Dawson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dawson
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leptotyphlops_dulcis.jpg
Leptotyphlops dulcis is a blind snake species endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Common names for L. dulcis include the following: burrowing snake, eastern worm snake, plains blind snake, Texas blind snake, Texas Rena, Texas slender blind snake, Texas threadsnake, Texas worm snake, worm snake. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Leptotyphlopidae, Genus: Leptotyphlops, Species: Leptotyphlops dulcis (Baird & Girard, 1853).
Synonyms:
Rena dulcis Baird & Girard, 1853
Stenostoma dulce — Cope, 1861
St[enostoma]. dulce — Jan & Sordelli, 1861
Stenostoma rubellum Garman, 1884
Leptotyphlops dulcis — Stejneger, 1891
Glauconia dulcis — Cope, 1892
Glauconia dulcis — Boulenger, 1893
Leptotyphlops dulcis dulcis — Klauber, 1940
Leptotyphlops dulcis — Hahn, 1980
