Rena (snake)

Rena
Rena humilis, western threadsnake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Subfamily:	Epictinae
Genus:	Rena Baird & Girard, 1853

Rena is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is endemic to the New World. All of the species were previously placed in the genus Leptotyphlops.

Species

The genus Rena contains the following species, which are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Rena boettgeri (F. Werner, 1899)
• Rena bressoni (Taylor, 1939) – Michoacán slender blind snake
• Rena dugesii (Bocourt, 1881) – Dugès's threadsnake
• Rena dulcis Baird & Girard, 1853 – Texas blind snake
• Rena humilis Baird & Girard, 1853 – western threadsnake
• Rena iversoni (H.M. Smith, van Breukelen, Auth & Chiszar, 1998)
• Rena klauberi Flores-Villela, E.N. Smith, Canseco-Márquez & Campbell, 2022
• Rena maxima (Loveridge, 1932) – giant blind snake
• Rena segrega (Klauber, 1939) – Trans-Pecos blind snake
• Rena unguirostris (Boulenger, 1902) – southern blind snake

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

Etymologies

The specific name, dugesii, is in honor of Mexican zoologist Alfredo Dugès.^[2]

The specific name, iversoni, is in honor of American herpetologist John B. Iverson.^[3]

References

1. Genus Rena at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
2. Species Rena dugesii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops dulcis iversoni, p. 131).

Further reading

• Baird SF, Girard C (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Rena, new genus, p. 142; Rena dulcis, new species, pp. 142–143; Rena humilis, new species, p. 143).