Epictina Hedges, Adalsteinsson, & Branch, New Subtribe
Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, 208 Mueller Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 - 5301 USA.
- 2. Bayworld, P. O. Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa
- 3. Laboratoire ECOLAG, UMR 5119, Université Montpellier II, cc 093, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- 4. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Zoology Department, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK 73072, USA Corresponding author. E-mail: sbh 1 @ psu. edu
Description
Subtribe Epictina Hedges, Adalsteinsson, & Branch, New Subtribe
Type genus. Epictia Gray, 1845: 139.
Diagnosis. Epictina is distinguished from the subtribe Renina (see below) by having absent or normal-sized supraoculars (small in Renina) and by having a striped pattern and brightly colored dorsum, often with red and yellow (Table 2). Among other leptotyphlopids, only four West Indian species have stripes, and in three of those species the stripes are dull yellow. Epictina is distinguished from the subtribe Tetracheilostomina by having 2 supralabials (3–4 in Tetracheilostomina). The support for this group was 69% BP and 100% PP for the four-gene tree (Fig. 3) and 87% BP and 100% PP for the nine-gene tree (Fig. 4).
Content. Two genera and 29 species (Table 1).
Distribution. The subtribe is distributed from southern Mexico (Colima, Veracruz) through the lowlands of Middle America, south to Argentina and Uruguay in South America, but excluding the high Andes. It also occurs on San Salvador Island (Bahamas), Cozumel Island (Mexico), Islas de Bahia and Swan Islands (Honduras), San Andres and Providencia Islands (Colombia), Bonaire, Margarita Islands, and Trinidad.
Remarks. This subtribe comprises the major radiation of leptotyphlopids in South America.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Leptotyphlopidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hedges, Adalsteinsson, & Branch
- Taxonomic status
- subtrib. nov.
- Taxon rank
- subTribe
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epictina Adalsteinsson, Branch & Hedges, 2009
References
- Gray, J. E. (1845) Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collections of the British Museum. British Museum, London, 289 pp.