Reuter's blind snake
Reuter's blind snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Madatyphlops |
Species: | M. reuteri |
Binomial name | |
Madatyphlops reuteri (Boettger, 1881) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Reuter's blind snake (Madatyphlops reuteri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]
Etymology
The specific name, reuteri, is in honor of "C. Reuter" who collected the holotype.[5]
Geographic range
It is endemic to the Madagascan island Nosy Be.[2]
References
- ↑ Raxworthy, C.J. & Vences, M. 2010. Typhlops reuteri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178494A7558359. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178494A7558359.en. Downloaded on 16 August 2018.
- 1 2 "Madatyphlops reuteri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ↑ 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. 511 pp.
- ↑ 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. (Typhlops reuteri, p. 220).
Further reading
- Boettger, O[skar] (1881). "Diagnoses Reptilium et Batrachiorum Novorum insulae Nossi-Bé Madagascariensis ". Zoologische Anzeiger 4: 650-651. (Typhlops reuteri, new species, p. 650). (in Latin).
- Nagy, Zoltán; Marion, Angela B.; Glaw, Frank; Miralles, Aurélien; Nopper, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Hedges, S. Blair (2015). "Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)". Zootaxa 4040 (1): 31-47.
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