Typhlopidae

Pyron, Robert Alexander & Wallach, Van, 2014, Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence, Zootaxa 3829 (1), pp. 1-81 : 61-62

Typhlopidae incertae sedis

The species “ Typhlops ” longissimus was described from North America by Duméril & Bibron (1844), but Dixon & Hendricks (1979), Hahn (1980), and McDiarmid et al. (1999) all considered it incertae sedis with erroneous locality data. The type (MNHN 1061) has been re-examined and shows a possible relationship to Indotyphlops tenuicollis of northern India based on scale counts and proportion of head shields (Table 2). We continue to consider it Typhlopidae incertae sedis, though it is considered a valid species (Wallach et al. 2014). This taxon is also the type species of the genus Opthalmidion ( Duméril & Bibron, 1844) , by subsequent designation of Peters (1881). Thus, if this species is found to be placed in Indotyphlops (or any other genus erected after 1844), Ophthalmidion will assume priority for that taxon. A number of other species of indeterminate or ambiguous origin have been described in Typhlopidae (see Wallach et al. 2014), but we have no further evidence to bear on their status at this time.

Taxon polygrammicus torresianus Sample size n = 2 n = 3 (A)

Right liver 25.4 23.5 Left liver 25.1 23.5 Total (left + right) liver 50.4 47 Right kidney 3.3 4.8 Left kidney 3.3 4.5 Total (left + right) kidney 6.6 9.3 Rectal caecum 2.5 4.9 Trachea 31.5 36 Tracheal lung 19.1 24.3 Right lung 17.4 20.6 Right lung PT 49.8 57.5 Right bronchus 11.6 7.3 (B)

Heart MP 30.2 34.8 Right liver MP 47.7 50.8 Left liver MP 44.3 48.9 Total (left + right) liver MP 46.1 49.9 Right gonad MP 78.7 76.9 Left gonad MP 83.4 81.4 Total (left + right) gonad MP 81 79.1 Left adrenal MP 86 84.2 Total (left + right) adrenal MP 84.6 82.3 Right kidney MP 89.7 86.4 Left kidney MP 92.2 89.9 Total (left + right) kidney MP 90.9 88.1 Trachea MP 16.7 18.9 Tracheal lung MP 18.6 20.6 Right lung MP 41.1 47.2 (C)

Snout-heart INT 32.4 36.9 Heart-liver INT 32.3 29.9 Heart-gall bladder GAP 34.6 31.3 Liver-gall bladder INT 33.4 30.7 Liver-kidney GAP 27.7 21.4 Liver-kidney INT 58.8 53 Gall bladder-kidney GAP 19.6 14.2 Gall bladder-kidney INT 26.9 23.9

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