Reuter's blind snake

Reuter's blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Madatyphlops
Species: M. reuteri
Binomial name
Madatyphlops reuteri
(Boettger, 1881)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops reuteri
    Boettger, 1881
  • Typhlops lenzi
    Boettger, 1882
  • Madatyphlops reuteri
    — Hedges et al., 2014
  • Lemuriatyphlops reuteri
    — Pyron & Wallach, 2014
  • Madatyphlops reuteri
    — Nagy et al., 2015

Reuter's blind snake (Madatyphlops reuteri) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, reuteri, is in honor of "C. Reuter" who collected the holotype.[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to the Madagascan island Nosy Be.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Raxworthy, C.J. & Vences, M. 2010. Typhlops reuteri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178494A7558359. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178494A7558359.en. Downloaded on 16 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Madatyphlops reuteri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 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.
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops reuteri, p. 220).

Further reading

  • Boettger, O[skar] (1881). "Diagnoses Reptilium et Batrachiorum Novorum insulae Nossi-Bé Madagascariensis ". Zoologische Anzeiger 4: 650-651. (Typhlops reuteri, new species, p. 650). (in Latin).
  • Nagy, Zoltán; Marion, Angela B.; Glaw, Frank; Miralles, Aurélien; Nopper, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Hedges, S. Blair (2015). "Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)". Zootaxa 4040 (1): 31-47.
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