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Distribution

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Continent: South-America
Distribution: N Peru.
Type locality: Rio Chotano, between Chota and Cutervo, northern Peru, elevation 2350 m.

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Northern blind snake

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The northern blind snake (Epictia teaguei) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[2]^[3] The species is endemic to Peru.

Etymology

The specific name, teaguei, is in honor of Gerard Warden Teague (1885–1974), a herpetologist and ichthyologist who was born in England and worked in South America.^[4]

Geographic range

E. teaguei is found in northern Peru.^[1]

Reproduction

E. teaguei is oviparous.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Species Epictia teaguei at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Leptotyphlops teaguei, p. 44).
^ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops teaguei, p. 262).

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