Leptotyphlops burii

Leptotyphlops burii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Leptotyphlops
Species:	L. burii
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops burii (Boulenger, 1905)
Synonyms
Glauconia burii Boulenger, 1905 Leptotyphlops burii — Corkill & Cochrane, 1965 Myriopholis burii — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009[1]

Leptotyphlops burii, commonly known as the Arabian blind snake, is a species of snake in the Leptotyphlopidae family.^[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, burii, is in honor of British naturalist George Wyman Bury (1874-1920).^[4]

References

1. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
3. "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
4. 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. (Leptotyphlops burii, p. 44).

Further reading

• Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis burii, new combination, p. 28).

• Boulenger GA. 1905. Descriptions of Three new Snakes discovered in South Arabia by Mr. G. W. Bury. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Seventh Series 16: 178-180. ("Glauconia Burii [sic]", new species, p. 178).

• Corkill NL, Cochrane JA. 1966. The snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 62 (3): 475-506. (Leptotyphlops burii, new combination).