Indotyphlops madgemintonae

Indotyphlops madgemintonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Indotyphlops
Species: I. madgemintonae
Binomial name
Indotyphlops madgemintonae
Khan, 1999[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops madgemintonai
    Khan, 1999
  • Typhlops madgemintonae
    — Wallach, 2000
    (emendation)
  • Indotyphlops madgemintonae
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Indotyphlops madgemintonae is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, madgemintonae (genitive, feminine, singular), is in honor of Madge Alice Shortridge Rutherford Minton (1920–2004), the wife of American herpetologist Sherman A. Minton.[3]

Geographic range

It is endemic to Pakistan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Indotyphlops madgemintonae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  2. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. xi + 511 pp.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops madgemintonae, pp. 165, 178-179).

Further reading

  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Indotyphlops madgemintonae, new combination).
  • Khan MS (1999). "Two new species and a subspecies of blind snakes of genus Typhlops from Azad Kashmir and Punjab, Pakistan (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Russian Journal of Herpetology 6 (3): 231-240. ("Typhlops madgemintonai [sic]", new species, p. 233).
  • Wallach V (2000). "Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. Khan, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Hamadryad 25 (2): 129-143. (Typhlops madgemintonae, corrected name, p. 130).
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