Rena humilis
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Rena humilis, known commonly as the western blind snake, the western slender blind snake, and the western threadsnake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to th
Rena humilis in hand
A closeup of L. humilis head
Karl Patterson Schmidt
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Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.
Rena humilis
…Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 plates, 207 figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Rena humilis, pp. 361–363, Figure 172). Schmidt KP, Davis DD (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. (Leptotyphlops humilis, pp. 94–95…
c. 1950
Schmidt in 1929 with a two-toed sloth
Schmidt died after being bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake.