Tricheilostoma

Tricheilostoma is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is native to Africa. All of the member species of Tricheilostoma were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Tricheilostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily:	Epictinae
Genus:	Tricheilostoma Jan, 1860

Species

The genus Tricheilostoma contains the following six species.^[1]

• Tricheilostoma bicolor (Jan, 1860) – two-colored blind snake
• Tricheilostoma broadleyi (Wallach & Hahn, 1997)
• Tricheilostoma dissimilis (Bocage, 1886) – Sudan blind snake
• Tricheilostoma greenwelli (Wallach & Boundy, 2005)
• Tricheilostoma kongoensis (J.-F. Trape, 2019)
• Tricheilostoma sundewalli (Jan, 1862) – Sundevall's worm snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tricheilostoma.