Epictinae
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| Epictinae | |
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| Trilepida macrolepis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Leptotyphlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Epictinae Hedges, Adalsteinsson & Branch, 2009 |
| Tribes | |
Epictinae (commonly called slender blind snakes or threadsnakes) are a subfamily of snakes found in the New World and equatorial Africa. Members of this subfamily tend to have short, thick tails, and the fewest subcaudal scales. It comprises two tribes, three subtribes, ten genera, and 86 species.[1]
- Tribe Epictini, New World snakes
- Subtribe Epictina
- Genus Epictia Gray, 1845 (43 species)
- Genus Habrophallos A. Martins, Koch, Pinto, Folly, Fouquet & Passos, 2020 – collared blind snake (monotypic)
- Genus Siagonodon W. Peters, 1881 (4 species)
- Subtribe Renina
- Subtribe Tetracheilostomina
- Genus Mitophis Hedges, Adalsteinsson & Branch, 2009 (4 species)
- Genus Tetracheilostoma Jan, 1861 (3 species)
- Subtribe Epictina
- Tribe Rhinoleptini, African snakes
- Genus Tricheilostoma Jan, 1860 (5 species)
- Genus Rhinoleptus Orejas-Miranda, Roux-Estève & Guibé, 1970 – Villiers's blind snake (monotypic)
- Genus Rhinoguinea J.-F. Trape 2014 – Rhinoguinea magna (monotypic)
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