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Texas Threadsnake
Rena dulcis Baird and Girard, 1853

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona Colorado Kansas New Mexico Oklahoma Oklahoma Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Texas Rena (Stenostoma dulce: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Worm Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis: Strecker, John K., Jr. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Eastern Worm Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); New Mexican Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis dissectus: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Texas Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis dulcis: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); New Mexico Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis dissecta: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Texas Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis dulcis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1853 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1. Serpents. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 2(5):xvi + 172
1931 Klauber, Laurence M. Notes on the worm snakes of the south west, with descriptions of two new subspecies. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 6(23):333-352
1937 Hibbard, Claude W. Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus in Kansas and additional notes on Leptotyphlops dulcis. Copeia 1937(1):74
1940 Klauber, Laurence M. The worm snakes of the genus Leptotyphlops in the United States and northern Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9(18):87-160
1960 McCoy, Clarence J., Jr. An unusually large aggregation of Leptotyphlops. Copeia 1960(4):368
1979 Hahn, Donald E. Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlops. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (230):1-4
1979 Hahn, Donald E. Leptotyphlops dulcis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (231):1-2
1993 Smith, Hobart M. and David Chiszar. Apparent intergradation in Texas between the subspecies of the Texas Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis). Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 29(4):143-155
2009 Adalsteinsson, Solny. A., William R. Branch, Sebastien Trape, Laurie J. Vitt, and S. Blair Hedges. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2009(2244):18264

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