McDowell’s blind snake

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

McDowell’s blind snake (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli) is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, mcdowelli, is in honor of American herpetologist Samuel Booker McDowell (born 1928).[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tallowin, O. & Allison, A. 2015. Gerrhopilus mcdowelli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T178354A21650275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T178354A21650275.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Gerrhopilus mcdowelli ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watson, and Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops mcdowelli, p. 173).

Further reading

  • Vidal, Nicholas, Julie Marin, Marina Morini, Steve Donnellan, William R. Branch, Richard Thomas, Miguel Vences, Addison Wynn, Corinne Cruaud, and S. Blair Hedges. 2010. "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana". Biology Letters 6: 558-561. (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli, new combination).
  • Wallach, V. 1996. "Two New Blind Snakes of the Typhlops ater Group from Papua New Guinea". Russian J. Herp. 3 (2): 107-118. (Typhlops mcdowelli, new species).
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