Loveridge's worm snake

Loveridge's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Indotyphlops
Species: I. loveridgei
Binomial name
Indotyphlops loveridgei
(Constable, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
  • Typhlops loveridgei

Loveridge's worm snake (Indotyphlops loveridgei) is a harmless blind snake species endemic to northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[3]

Geographic range

It is known only from the type specimen, the type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North India", and likely from "Ambala or the Kulu Valley".[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA. 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).
  2. ↑ "Typhlops loveridgei". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
  3. ↑ 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 loveridgei, p. 161).

Further reading

  • Constable JD. 1940. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59-160. (Typhlops loveridgei, new species, pp. 110–111).online
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