Loyalty Islands blind snake

Loyalty Islands blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Ramphotyphlops
Species: R. willeyi
Binomial name
Ramphotyphlops willeyi
(Boulenger, 1900)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops willeyi
    Boulenger, 1900
  • Typhlina willeyi
    — McDowell, 1974
  • Ramphotyphlops willeyi
    — Bauer & Vindum, 1990

The Loyalty Islands blind snake (Ramphotyphlops willeyi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Melanesia.

Etymology

The specific name, willeyi, is in honor of British-Canadian zoologist Arthur Willey.[5]

Geographic range

R. willeyi is found in the Loyalty Islands on Lifou and Maré, and on the island of New Caledonia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Whitaker, A.H. & Sadlier, R.A. 2011. Ramphotyphlops willeyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T176206A7197125. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T176206A7197125.en. Downloaded on 18 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Ramphotyphlops willeyi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ "Ramphotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ 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. (Ramphotyphlops willeyi, p. 286).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1900). "On a new Blind Snake from Lifu, Loyalty Islands". pp. 603–604. In: Willey A (1900). Zoological Results Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, Collected During the Years 1895, 1896 and 1897. Part V. pp. 531–830. (Typhlops willeyi, new species).
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