A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW)

We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century. The species differs from the congeners by the combination of external morphological characters: midtail scale rows 10; sup...

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Published in:	PeerJ
Main Authors:	Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PeerJ Inc. 2019-08-01
Subjects:	Burrowing snakes Epictinae Thread snakes Fossorial snakes Slender blind snakes Systematics
Online Access:	https://peerj.com/articles/7411.pdf