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Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)

@article{Adalsteinsson2009MolecularPC,
  title={Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)},
  author={S. Adalsteinsson and W. Branch and S. Trape and L. Vitt and S. Hedges},
  journal={Zootaxa},
  year={2009},
  volume={2244},
  pages={1-50}
}

• S. Adalsteinsson, W. Branch, +2 authors S. Hedges
• Published 2009
• Biology
• Zootaxa

The family Leptotyphlopidae (116 species) includes the smallest and thinnest species of snakes, often called threadsnakes (or wormsnakes). They are burrowing, have small eyes, and they feed on several life history stages of social insects. Leptotyphlopids have a West Gondwanan distribution, occurring primarily in Africa and the Neotropics (South America, Middle America, and the West Indies). The family is one of the most poorly known of all terrestrial vertebrates from the standpoint of… Expand

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