Beddome's worm snake

Beddome's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Gerrhopilidae
Genus:Gerrhopilus
Species: G. beddomii
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus beddomii
(Boulenger, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops beddomii
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Typhlops beddomii
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Typhlops beddomei
    — Wall, 1923
  • Typhlops beddomei
    — M.A. Smith, 1943[2]
  • Typhlops beddomii
    — McDiarmid, Campbell &
    Touré, 1999
  • Gerrhopilus beddomii
    — Vidal et al., 2010[3]

Beddome's worm snake (Gerrhopilus beddomii) is a species of harmless blind snake in the family Gerrhopilidae. The species is endemic to southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[4]

Etymology

It is named after Richard Henry Beddome (1830-1911), a British army officer and botanist.[5]

Geographic range

Beddome's worm snake is found in southern India in the Western Ghats and in the Kimedy Hills near Visakhapatnam in eastern India.

The type locality given is "Hills of the Indian Peninsula ... Kimedy Hills, (Visakhapatnam district) and in the Anaimalai and Travancore Hills between 2000 and 5000 feet"[2] (about 600–1500 m).

References

  1. ↑ Srinivasulu, B., Srinivasulu, C. & Ganesan, S.R. 2013. Gerrhopilus beddomii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172678A1365513. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172678A1365513.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. 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).
  3. ↑ "Gerrhopilus beddomii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ↑ "Typhlops beddomii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
  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. (Typhlops beddomii, p. 21).

Further reading

  • 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. (Typhlops beddomii, new species, p. 237).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Typhlops beddomii, p. 18 + Plate I, Figures 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d).
  • 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. (Typhlops beddomei, pp. 54–55).
  • Vidal N, Marin J, Morini M, Donnellan S, Branch WR, Thomas R, Vences M, Wynn A, Cruaud C, Hedges SB (2010). "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana". Biology Letters 6: 558-561.
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