Marx's worm snake
Marx's worm snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Ramphotyphlops |
Species: | R. marxi |
Binomial name | |
Ramphotyphlops marxi (Wallach, 1993) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Marx's worm snake (Ramphotyphlops marxi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]
Etymology
The specific name, marxi, is in honor of American herpetologist Hymen Marx.[5]
References
- ↑ Gonzalez, J.C. & Diesmos, A. 2009. Ramphotyphlops marxi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T169830A6679687. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169830A6679687.en. Downloaded on 18 August 2018.
- ↑ "Ramphotyphlops marxi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and 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.
- ↑ 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. (Ramphotyphlops marxi, p. 170).
Further reading
- Wallach V. 1993. "A New Species of Blind Snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Raffles Bull. Zool. 41 (2): 263-278.
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