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    Species Accepted

    Epictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961)

    Rio Grande do Sul Blind Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Epictia
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Cobra-Cega-Amarela Portuguese
      Cobra-Cega-Minhoca-Comum Portuguese
      Cobra-Cega-Sulina Portuguese
      Rio Grande do Sul Blind Snake English
      Rio Grande do Sul-trådslange Danish
      culebra ciega oriental Spanish

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      24 results
      Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, S.; Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. (2009). Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50.
      Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Guarino R. Colli, Henrique C. Costa, Francisco L. Franco, Alejandro Giraudo, Rodrigo C. Gonzalez, Thaís Guedes, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Otavio A.V. Marques, Giovanna G. Montingelli, Paulo Passos, Ana L.C. Prudente, Gilson A. Rivas, Paola M. Sanchez, Filipe C. Serrano, Nelson J. Silva Jr., Christine Strüssmann, João Paulo S. Vieira-Alencar, Hussam Zaher, Ricardo J. Sawaya, Marcio Martins. (2019). Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274.
      Lema, T. d. & Dotto, C. P. (2012). Epictia munoai (Uruguayan blindsnake) aggregation. Herpetological Review 43: 344.
      Orejas-Miranda, Braulio R. (1961). Una nueva especie de ofidio de la familia Leptotyphlopidae. Act. Biol. Venezuelica, Caracas, 3: 83-97.
      Carreira Vidal, & Santiago. (2002). Alimentación de los ofidios de Uruguay. Asoc. Herp. Esp., Monograf. Herp. 6, 127 Pp.
      Arredondo, & Juan Camilo and Hussam Zaher. (2010). A New Species of Epictia (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Brazil. South American J. Herp. 5 (3): 189–198.
      Souza Filho, G.A.; L.Verrastro. (2012). Reptiles of the Parque Estadual de Itapuã, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Check List 8(5):847-851.
      Giraudo, A. R. (1999). New records of snakes from Argentina. Herpetological Review 30 (3): 179-181.
      FRANCISCO, BÁRBARA CRISTINA S.; ROBERTA R. PINTO & DANIEL S. FERNANDES. (2012). Taxonomy of Epictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961) (Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae). Zootaxa 3512: 42–52.
      Mario-Da-Rosa, C., Brum, A. J. C., Loebens, L., Santos, T. G., & Cechin, S. Z. (2025). Natural history of the small snake Epictia munoai (Scolecophidia; Leptotyphlopidae): Reproductive cycle, sexual maturity and activity pattern. Acta Zoologica, 107, 54–66.

      Citation

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