Myriopholis
{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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Myriopholis is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. Most of the species were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
- Myriopholis adleri {{small|(Hahn & Wallach, 1998)}} – Adler's worm snake
- Myriopholis albiventer {{small|(Hallermann & Rödel, 1995)}} – white-bellied worm snake
- Myriopholis algeriensis {{small|(Jacquet, 1896)}}
- Myriopholis blanfordi {{small|(Boulenger, 1890)}} – Sindh threadsnake, Blanford's worm snake
- Myriopholis boueti {{small|(Chabanaud, 1917)}} – Bouet's worm snake
- Myriopholis braccianii {{small|(Scortecci, 1929)}} – Scortecci's blind snake, Bracciani's worm snake
- Myriopholis burii {{small|(Boulenger, 1905)}} – Arabian blind snake, Bury's worm snake
- Myriopholis cairi {{small|(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844)}} – Cairo blind snake
- Myriopholis erythraeus {{small|(Scortecci, 1929)}} – Eritrean worm snake
- Myriopholis filiformis {{small|(Boulenger, 1899)}} – Socotra Island blind snake
- Myriopholis ionidesi {{small|(Broadley & Wallach, 2007)}} – Ionides's worm snake
- Myriopholis lanzai {{small|Broadley, Wade & Wallach, 2014}}
- Myriopholis longicauda {{small|(W. Peters, 1854)}} – long-tailed threadsnake
- Myriopholis macrorhyncha {{small|(Jan, 1860)}} – hook-snouted worm snake, long-nosed worm snake
- Myriopholis macrura {{small|(Boulenger, 1899)}} – Boulenger's blind snake
- Myriopholis narirostris {{small|(W. Peters, 1867)}}
- Myriopholis nursii {{small|(Anderson, 1896)}} – Nurse's blind snake
- Myriopholis occipitalis {{small|J.-F. Trape & Chirio, 2019}}
- Myriopholis parkeri {{small|(Broadley, 1999)}} – Parker's worm snake
- Myriopholis perreti {{small|(Roux-Estève, 1979)}}
- Myriopholis rouxestevae {{small|(J.-F. Trape & Mané, 2004)}} – Roux-Estève's worm snake
- Myriopholis tanae {{small|(Broadley & Wallach, 2007)}} – Tana worm snake
- Myriopholis wilsoni {{small|(Hahn, 1978)}} – Wilson's blind snake
- Myriopholis yemenica {{small|(Scortecci, 1933)}} – Yemen blind snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Myriopholis.
References
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