Kei Island worm snake

Kei Island worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Malayotyphlops
Species: M. kraalii
Binomial name
Malayotyphlops kraalii
(Doria, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops kraalii
    Doria, 1874
  • Malayotyphlops kraalii
    — Hedges et al., 2014[1]

The Kei Island worm snake (Malayotyphlops kraalii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, kraali, is in honor of Captain P.F. Kraal of the Dutch military in the Moluccas, who assisted the Italian expedition on which the holotype was collected.[4]

Geographic range

It is found in the Kai Islands of Indonesia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Malayotyphlops kraalii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Jonathan A. Campbell; 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.
  4. ↑ 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 kraali [sic]", p. 146).

Further reading

  • 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 + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Typhlops kraalii, p. 30).
  • Doria G. 1874. "Enumerazione dei rettili raccolti dal Dott. O. Beccari in Amboina, alle Isole Aru ed alle Isole Kei durante gli anni 1872-73 ". [= Enumeration of the reptiles collected by Dr. O. Beccari on Ambon Island, in the Aru Islands and in the Kai Islands during the years 1872-1873]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 6: 325-357 + Plates XI-XII. (Typhlops kraalii, new species, p. 347 + Plate XII, figure f, 5 views). (in Italian).
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N. 2014. "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Malayotyphlops kraalii, new combination).
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