Marx's worm snake

Marx's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Ramphotyphlops
Species: R. marxi
Binomial name
Ramphotyphlops marxi
(Wallach, 1993)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops marxi
    Wallach, 1993
  • Ramphotyphlops marxi
    — Wallach et al., 2007

Marx's worm snake (Ramphotyphlops marxi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, marxi, is in honor of American herpetologist Hymen Marx.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Gonzalez, J.C. & Diesmos, A. 2009. Ramphotyphlops marxi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T169830A6679687. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169830A6679687.en. Downloaded on 18 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ramphotyphlops marxi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  4. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  5. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ramphotyphlops marxi, p. 170).

Further reading

  • Wallach V. 1993. "A New Species of Blind Snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Raffles Bull. Zool. 41 (2): 263-278.
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