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Distribution

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Continent: Middle-America South-America
Distribution: Mexico (Oaxaca), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela Trinidad, Bonaire I, Margarita I, Isla San Andres, Isla Providencia, Swan I, Islas de la Bahia ater: Nicaragua, Costa Rica;
Type locality: Managua, Nicaragua. bakewelli: Mexico (Coastal and foothill regions on Pacific slopes from Colima and Michoacan southward to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Oaxaca); Type locality.Paso del Rio, Colima. Type.Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. No. 80228. phenops: Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico (Coastal and foothill regions on Atlantic slopes from central Veracruz, including Yucatan; and on Pacific slopes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec into N Chiapas, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Veracruz, and Yucatan, Cozumel Island);
Type locality: Tehuantepec. Type: USNM 12444, 30289-94, cotypes.
Type locality: La Guaira, Venezuela.

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Epictia goudotii

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Epictia goudotii, or the black blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to Middle America.^[2]^[3]

Etymology

The specific name, goudotii, is in honor of French naturalist Justin-Marie Goudot.^[4]

Geographic range

In Central America, E. goudotii is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Oaxaca), Nicaragua, and Panama.^[1]

In South America, it is found in western Colombia, Venezuela,^[5] and on associated islands.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Epictia goudotii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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).
^ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
^ 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 bakewelli, p. 15; Leptotyphlops goudotii, p. 104).
^ Freiberg MA (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Leptotyphlops goudotii goudotii, p. 118).

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