Michoacán slender blind snake

The Michoacán slender blind snake (Rena bressoni), also known commonly as la culebrilla ciega de Michoacán in Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Michoacán, Mexico.[1][2]

Michoacán slender blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Rena
Species:
R. bressoni
Binomial name
Rena bressoni
(Taylor, 1939)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leptotyphlops bressoni
    Taylor, 1939
  • Rena bressoni
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009

Etymology

The specific name, bressoni, is in honor of Julio Raymond Bresson, who collected the type specimen.[5]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. bressoni is forest.[1]

Behavior

R. bressoni is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

R. bressoni is oviparous.[1][2]

References
  1. Flores-Villela, O.; Canseco-Márquez, L. (2007). "Rena bressoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T64055A12740604. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64055A12740604.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Rena bressoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. 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 bressoni, p. 23).
  4. "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. 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).

Further reading
  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Rena bressoni, new combination).
  • Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. 1. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Taylor EH (1939). "On North American Snakes of the Genus Leptotyphlops ". Copeia 1939 (1): 1–7. (Leptotyphlops bressoni, new species).



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