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Reptilia    Squamata (part-snakes)    Leptotyphlopidae  
Trans-Pecos Threadsnake
Rena segrega Klauber, 1939
REH-nah — seh-GREE-guh
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SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 See comment under Rena. (Boundy, Jeff, Frank T. Burbrink, and Sara Ruane. 2025. Squamata (excluding lizards) – Snakes. Pages 38-54 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)

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Occurrences:; 30 Total; 7 Museum; 23 Other

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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its genetic and geographic distinctiveness.
Rena — Possibly from Latin, with no clear etymology provided by Baird and Girard when the genus was established. It may be arbitrary or refer to a personal or local name.
segrega — From Latin segregare, “to separate” or “to isolate.” Refers to the species’ isolation (both genetically and geographically) from other members of the Rena humilis complex.

First instance(s) of published English names:
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Selected References:
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
1939 Klauber, Laurence M. A new subspecies of the western worm snake. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9(14):67-68
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
1977 Orejas-Miranda, Braulio R., George R. Zug, Daniel Y. E. Garcia, and Federico Achaval. Scale organs on the head of Leptotyphlops (Reptilia, Serpentes): A variational study. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 90(2):209-213
1979 Hahn, Donald E. Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlops. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (230):1-4
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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