Tetracheilostoma

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Familia: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Tetracheilostoma
Species: T. bilineatum – T. breuili – T. carlae
Name

Tetracheilostoma Jan, 1861: 191

Type species: Typhlops bilineatus Schlegel, 1839, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Eucephalus Fitzinger, 1843: 24. Type species: Typhlops bilineatus Schlegel, 1839, by original description [Preoccupied by Eucephalus Laporte, 1834: Coleoptera].

References

Jan, G. 1861: Note sulla famiglia dei tiflopidi sui loro generi e sulle specie del genere Stenostoma. Archivio Per La Zoologia, L'Anatomia E La Fisiologia, 1: 178–199.
Solny A. Adalsteinsson, William R. Branch , Sébastien Trape , Laurie J. Vitt & S. Blair Hedges 2009: Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata) Zootaxa, 2244: 1–50. pdf

Tetracheilostoma is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. All of the species were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

The genus contains the following species:[1]

Tetracheilostoma bilineatum, two-lined blind snake
Tetracheilostoma breuili, St. Lucia threadsnake
Tetracheilostoma carlae, Barbados threadsnake

References

" Tetracheilostoma ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.