Malcolm's worm snake
| Malcolm's worm snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Indotyphlops |
| Species: | I. malcolmi
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| Binomial name | |
| Indotyphlops malcolmi (Taylor, 1947)
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Malcolm's worm snake (Indotyphlops malcolmi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, malcolmi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.[4]
Geographic range
[edit]It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Indotyphlops malcolmi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 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. (Typhlops malcolmi, p. 166).
Further reading
[edit]- 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. (Indotyphlops malcolmi, new combination).
- Taylor EH. 1947. "Comments on Ceylonese Snakes of the Genus Typhlops with Descriptions of New Species". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 31 (13): 283–298. (Typhlops malcolmi, new species, pp. 291–292).