Amerotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal 2014

Amerotyphlops is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.

Distribution

The 19 species of this genus are found from Mexico through South America.^[1]

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Amerotyphlops amoipira (Rodrigues & Juncá, 2002)
• Amerotyphlops arenensis Graboski, Pereira Filho, Silva, Costa Prudente & Zaher, 2015
• Amerotyphlops brongersmianus (Vanzolini, 1976)
• Amerotyphlops caetanoi Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Rodrigues, Bonatto, & Zaher 2022
• Amerotyphlops costaricensis (Jiménez & Savage, 1963)
• Amerotyphlops illusorium Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Rodrigues, Bonatto, & Zaher, 2022
• Amerotyphlops lehneri (Roux, 1926)
• Amerotyphlops martis Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Rodrigues, Bonatto, & Zaher, 2022
• Amerotyphlops microstomus (Cope, 1866)
• Amerotyphlops minuisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979)
• Amerotyphlops montanum Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Pereira Filho, Silva, Prudente, Rodrigues, Bonatto, & Zaher, 2022
• Amerotyphlops paucisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979)
• Amerotyphlops reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Amerotyphlops stadelmani (Schmidt, 1936)
• Amerotyphlops tasymicris (Thomas, 1974)
• Amerotyphlops tenuis (Salvin, 1860)
• Amerotyphlops trinitatus (Richmond, 1965)
• Amerotyphlops tycherus (Townsend, Wilson, Ketzler & Luque-Montes, 2008)
• Amerotyphlops yonenagae (Rodrigues, 1991)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Amerotyphlops.

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