Siagonodon

Siagonodon
Siagonodon borrichianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily:	Epictinae
Genus:	Siagonodon W. Peters, 1881

Siagonodon is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus contains five species, all of which were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Species

The genus Siagonodon contains the following species.

• Siagonodon borrichianus (Degerbøl, 1923) – Degerbol's blind snake
• Siagonodon cupinensis (J.R. Bailey & A.L. Carvalho, 1946) – Mato Grosso blind snake
• Siagonodon exiguum Martins, Folly, Nunes-Ferreira, Garcia da Silva, Koch, Fouquet, Machado, Lopes, Pinto, Rodrigues, & Passos, 2023
• Siagonodon septemstriatus (J. Schneider, 1801) – seven-striped blind snake

References

Further reading

• Peters W (1881). "Einige herpetologische Mittheilungen: 1. Uebersicht der zu den Familien der Typhlopes und Stenostomi gehörigen Gattungen oder Untergattungen ". Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881 (4): 69–71. (Siagonodon, new genus, p. 71). (in German).

External links

• iNaturalist page