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Brazilian burrowing snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Gomesophis Hoge & Mertens, 1959
Species:	G. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Gomesophis brasiliensis (Gomes, 1918)
Synonyms
Tachymenis brasiliensis

The Brazilian burrowing snake (Gomesophis brasiliensis) is a snake endemic to Brazil. It is monotypic in the genus Gomesophis.

References

1. Silveira, A.L., Prudente, A.L. da C., Argôlo , A.J.S., Abrahão, C.R., Nogueira, C. de C., Strüssmann , C., Loebmann, D., Barbo, F.E., Franco, F.L., Costa, G.C., de Moura, G.J.B., Zaher, H. el D., Borges-Martins, M., Martins, M.R.C., Oliveira , M.E., Hoogmoed, M.S., Marques, O.A.V., Passos, P.G.H., Bérnils, R.S., Kawashita-Ribeiro, R.A., Sawaya, R.J. & da Costa, T.B.G. (2019). Gomesophis brasiliensis. In: IUCN 2019. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022.2.
2. Gomesophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2016.
3. Gomesophis brasiliensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2016.

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