Typhlopidae
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| Ramphotyphlops braminus | |
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| Superfamili: | Typhlopoidea
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| Famili: | Typhlopidae Merrem, 1820
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Typhlopidae adalah suku dari supersuku Typhlopoidea infraordo Scolecophidia.Ular ini juga umum disebut ular kawat. Warna tubuh mereka hitam atau kecokelatan, ukuran mereka juga beragam tergantung genus dan spesiesnya. Ular ini tersebar hampir di seluruh penjuru tropis dan subtropis Oseania, Asia, Afrika, Eropa selatan, dan Amerika tropikal.
Jenis-jenis
- Acutotyphlops Wallach, 1995
- Afrotyphlops Broadley & Wallach, 2009[2]
- Austrotyphlops Wallach, 2006
- Cyclotyphlops Bosch & Ineich, 1994
- Grypotyphlops Peters, 1881[3]
- Letheobia Cope, 1869[4]
- Megatyphlops Broadley & Wallach, 2009
- Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843
- Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843
- Typhlops Oppel, 1811 - Ular kawat biasa
Kerabat dekat
Xenotyphlops, yang sebelumnya termasuk kedalam suku Typhlopidae, sekarang dijadikan suku tersendiri, yakni Xenotyphlopidae.
Referensi
- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ Broadley, Donald G., and Wallach, Van (2009). "A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species" (PDF). Zootaxa (2255): 1–100.
- ^ Resurrected for a reclassified Rhinotyphlops acutus by Wallach (2003). Wallach, Van and Pauwels, Olivier S. G. (2004). "Typhlops lazelli, a new species of Chinese blindsnake from Hong Kong (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)" (PDF). Breviora (512): 1–21.
- ^ Resurrected by Broadley and Wallach (2007). Wallach, Van; Brown, R. M.; Diesmos, A. C. and Gee, G. V. A. (2007). "An Enigmatic New Species of Blind Snake from Luzon Island, Northern Philippines, with a Synopsis of the Genus Acutotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)" (PDF). Journal of Herpetology. 41 (4): 690–702. doi:10.1670/206-5.1.