Typhlops kraalii

Typhlops kraalii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Subfamily: Asiatyphlopinae[1]
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. kraalii
Binomial name
Typhlops kraalii
Doria, 1874
Synonyms
  • Typhlops kraalii
    Doria, 1874
  • Malayotyphlops kraalii
    Hedges et al., 2014[1]

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

Etymology

The specific name, kraali, is in honor of Captain P.F. Kraal of the Dutch military in the Moluccas, who assisted the Italian expedition on which the holotype was collected.[4]

Geographic range

T. kraalii is found in the Kai Islands of Indonesia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Malayotyphlops kraalii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Jonathan A. Campbell; 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.
  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. ("Typhlops kraali [sic]", p. 146).

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