Samagutin worm snake

Samagutin worm snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Indotyphlops
Species: I. tenuicollis
Binomial name
Indotyphlops tenuicollis
(Peters, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Onychocephalus (Opthalmidion) tenuicollis - Peters, 1864
  • Typhlops Theobaldianus - Stoliczka, 1871
  • T[yphlops]. Theobaldanus - Theobald, 1876
  • T[yphlops]. tenuicollis - Theobald, 1876
  • Typhlops theobaldianus - Boulenger, 1893
  • Typhlops tenuicollis - Boulenger, 1893[2]

The Samagutin worm snake (Indotyphlops tenuicollis) is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[3]

Geographic range

Definitely only known from Nagaland in northern India. The type locality given is "angelich aus dem Himalaya" (Himalayas).[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wallach, V. 2010. Typhlops tenuicollis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178570A7572909. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178570A7572909.en. Downloaded on 12 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ↑ "Typhlops tenuicollis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 September 2007.

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp.
  • Peters W. 1864. Über neue Amphibien (Typhloscincus, Typhlops, Asthenodipsas, Ogmodon). Mber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin: 271-276.
  • Stoliczka F. 1871. Notes on some Indian and Burmese Ophidians. J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 40: 421-445
  • Theobald, W. 1876 Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta: xiii + 238 pp.
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