Typhlops koekkoeki

Typhlops koekkoeki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. koekkoeki
Binomial name
Typhlops koekkoeki
Brongersma, 1934
Synonyms
  • Typhlops koekkoeki
    Brongersma, 1934
  • Typhlops koekkoeki
    McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Malayotyphlops koekkoeki
    Hedges et al., 2014[1]

Typhlops koekkoeki is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, koekkoeki, is in honor of Dutch scientific illustrator Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1873-1944).[4]

Geographic range

T. koekkoeki is found on the Indonesian island of Bunyu off the northeastern coast of Borneo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Malayotyphlops koekkoeki ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. 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. (Typhlops koekkoeki, p. 106).
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops koekkoeki, p. 144).

Further reading


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