Richard's worm snake

Richard's worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Antillotyphlops
Species: A. richardi
Binomial name
Antillotyphlops richardi
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops richardii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
  • Typhlops richardii
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Antillotyphlops richardi
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Richard's worm snake (Antillotyphlops richardi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, richardi, is in honor of either of two French Botanists, Louis Claude Marie Richard or his son Achille Richard.[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to the Caribbean, where it is found on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, and on the United States Virgin Islands.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Platenberg, R. 2016. Typhlops richardii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T75607416A75608249. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T75607416A75608249.en. Downloaded on 09 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Antillotyphlops richardi ". 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. (Typhlops richardii, p. 117).
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops richardii, p. 220).

Further reading

  • Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G (1844). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles, Tome sixième [Volume 6]. Paris: Roret. xii + 609 pp. (Typhlops richardii, new species, pp. 290–293). (in French).
  • 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. (Antillotyphlops richardi, new combination).
  • Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Typhlops richardi, p. 199).
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