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Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Snakes (Serpentes)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Leptotyphlopidae (Thread Snakes) Genus Epictia (Neotropical Thread Snakes)   * Epictia bakewelli Colima Thread Snake Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges 2009 [as goudotii] Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 [as goudotii] Duellman 1956 [as Leptotyphlops gadowi] Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a [as Leptotyphlops gadowi] Hahn 1980 [as phenops] Holman 1964 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCranie & Hedges 2016 McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999 [as goudotii] Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Romo-García & Gallardo-Arroyo 2007 Smith & Taylor 1945 V. Wallach (pers. comm. 1 December 2016) Wallach 2016   Epictia magnamaculata Caribbean Black Thread Snake González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hahn 1980 [as Leptotyphlops goudotii phenops] McCranie & Hedges 2016 McCranie 2011 McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999 [as goudotii] Smith & Taylor 1945 [as L. p. phenops] Wallach 2016   Epictia phenops Shiny Thread Snake Alvarez del Toro 1982 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Mata-Silva, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Rocha, Wilson, Simón-Salvador, Mayoral-Halla, Montiel-Altamirano & Ramírez-Bautista 2017 McCoy & Horn 1962 McCranie & Hedges 2016 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 [as goudotii] Smith & Taylor 1945 Wallach 2016   * Epictia resetari Veracruz Thread Snake Adalsteinsson, Branch, Trape, Vitt & Hedges 2009 [as goudotii] Hahn 1980 [as phenops] McCranie & Hedges 2016 [as phenops] McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999 [as goudotii] Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 [as phenops] Smith & Taylor 1945 [as p. phenops] Wallach 2016   * Epictia schneideri Guerrero Thread Snake Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Wallach 2016   * Epictia vindumi Yucatan Thread Snake González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hahn 1980 [as phenops] Lee 1996 [as Leptotyphlops goudotii phenops] McCranie & Hedges 2016 [as phenops] Smith & Taylor 1945 [as p. phenops] Wallach 2016   * Epictia wynni Queretaran Thread Snake Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 [as E. goudotii] Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 [as phenops] McCranie & Hedges 2016 [as phenops] Smith & Taylor 1945 [as p. phenops] Wallach 2016 Genus Rena (Maroon Thread Snakes)   * Rena boettgeri Cerralvo Island Thread Snake Grismer 2002 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Rena bressoni Michoacan Thread Snake Ahumada-Carillo, Pérez Rivera, Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald & Jones 2014 Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Smith & Taylor 1945 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Rena dissecta New Mexico Thread Snake Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Schmidt 1953 Smith & Taylor 1945 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Rena dugesii Mexican Thread Snake Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Duellman 1958b Hahn 1980 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2016 Langebartel & Smith 1954 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 [as humilis] Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1945 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Tanner 1985 Zweifel 1959b   Rena dulcis Texas Thread Snake Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 Fernandez-Badillo & Goyenechea 2010 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Hernández-Salinas, Cruz-Elizalde, Berriosabal-Islas & Goyenechea 2011 Lazcano, Banda, Castañeda, Garcia-de la Peña & Rojas 2006 Lazcano, Galvan & Kardon 2000 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Reyes-Vera, Torres-Ángeles & Iturbo-Morgado 2017 Schmidt 1953 Smith & Brandon 1968 Smith & Taylor 1945 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Rena humilis Western Thread Snake Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Banks & Farmer 1963 Castañeda G., García-de la Peña, Lazcano & Salas-Westphal 2005 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Grismer 2002 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1945 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016   * Rena iversoni Tamaulipan Thread Snake Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Smith, Breukelen, Auth & Chiszar 1998 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016   * Rena maxima Giant Thread Snake Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Canseco Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Davis & Smith 1953b Dixon, Sabbath & Worthington 1962 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Hahn 1980 Hall 1951 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martínez-Coronel & López-Hernández 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Smith & Taylor 1945 Webb & Fugler 1957 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   * Rena myopica Tampico Thread Snake Cruz-Elizalde, Ramírez-Bautista, Johnson & Moreno 2014 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Lazcano, Contreras-Lozano, Gallardo-Valdez, García del Peña & Castañeda 2009 Lazcano, Galvan & Kardon 2000 Lazcano, Sánchez-Almazán, García-de la Peña, Castañeda & Contreras-Balderas 2007 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1958 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1945 Taylor 1949a Taylor 1953d Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Vite-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista & Hernández-Salinas 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   Rena segrega Trans-Pecos Thread Snake Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Gadsden, Estrada-Rodrigues & Leyva-Pacheco 2006 Hahn 1980 Heimes 2016 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Smith & Taylor 1945 Tanner 1985 [as Leptotyphlops humilis chihuahuaensis] Taylor 1949a Valdez-Lares & Gadsden 2014 Webb 1982 Zweifel 1954a