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Wagler's Blind Snake Epictia albifrons

Classification

Epictia [genus] (1)
albifrons [species]

Classification

Epictia [genus] (1)
albifrons [species]

Presence

Recorded on Bonaire
Presence status Introduced (2) - Bonaire
Distribution description Bonaire, Trinidad, on the mainland from Venezuela to Argentina. Probably introduced to Bonaire by humans (van Buurt, 2001).

Publications

  • Brongersma, L.D. 1940. Snakes from the Leeward Group, Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan Islands 2: 115-137.
  • Brongersma, L.D. 1959. Some snakes from the lesser Antilles. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 9: 50-60.
  • Buurt, G. van 2001. De amfibieën en reptielen van Aruba, Curaçao en Bonaire. 119 pp. Gerard van Buurt, Curaçao.
  • Buurt, G. van 2006. Conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. Applied Herpetology 3: 307-321.