Sindh threadsnake

Sindh threadsnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:Myriopholis
Species: M. blanfordi
Binomial name
Myriopholis blanfordi
(Boulenger, 1890)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Glauconia blanfordii
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Glauconia blanfordii
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Glauconia laticeps
    Nikolsky, 1907
  • Glauconia carltoni
    Barbour, 1908
  • Leptotyphlops blanfordi
    — M.A. Smith, 1943
  • Glauconia blanfordi
    — Sundersingh, 1960
  • Leptotypheops beanyordi
    Sundersingh, 1960
  • Leptotyphlops blanfordi blanfordi
    — Hahn, 1980
  • Myriopholis blanfordi
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Myriopholis blanfordi
    — Wallach et al., 2014

The Sindh thread snake (Myriopholis blanfordi) is a species of harmless blind snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is endemic to India and the Middle East.

Etymology

M. blanfordi is named after English naturalist William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), member of the Geological Survey of India.[3]

Subspecies

There are no subspecies of M. blanfordi that are currently recognized as being valid.[4][2]

Geographic range

M. blanfordi is found in India, Pakistan (Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province), Afghanistan, possibly Iran, south to Mecca through the Arabian Peninsula from Aden through Yemen. The type locality given is "Sind" [Punjab, India].[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Leptotyphlops blanfordi, p. 22).
  2. 1 2 "Myriopholis blanfordi ". 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 blanfordi, p. 27).
  4. ↑ "Leptotyphlops blanfordii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 September 2007.

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis blanfordi, new combination).
  • Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Glauconia blanfordii, new species, p. 243, Figure 72).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Glauconia blanfordii, p. 66).
  • Hahn DE, Wallach V (1998). "Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species". Hamadryad 23: 50-62.
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Leptotyphlops blanfordi, p. 61).
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