Fred Parker's blind snake

Fred Parker's blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Gerrhopilidae
Genus:Gerrhopilus
Species: G. fredparkeri
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus fredparkeri
(Wallach, 1996)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops fredparkeri
    Wallach, 1996
  • Gerrhopilus fredparkeri
    — Vidal et al., 2010

Fred Parker's blind snake (Gerrhopilus fredparkeri) is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, fredparkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Frederick Stanley "Fred" Parker (born 1941).[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tallowin, O., O'Shea, M. & Parker, F. 2015. Gerrhopilus fredparkeri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T42495453A42495460. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T42495453A42495460.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Gerrhopilus fredparkeri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  4. ↑ 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. (Typhlops fredparkeri, p. 103).
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops fredparkeri, pp. 94, 200).

Further reading

  • 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. (Gerrhopilus fredparkeri, new combination).
  • Wallach V (1996). "Two new blind snakes of the Typhlops ater species group from Papua New Guinea". Russian Journal of Herpetology 3 (2): 107-118. (Typhlops fredparkeri, new species).
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