Typhlops madgemintonai
| Typhlops madgemintonae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Asiatyphlopinae |
| Genus: | Typhlops |
| Species: | T. madgemintonae |
| Binomial name | |
| Typhlops madgemintonae Khan, 1999[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Typhlops madgemintonae, commonly known as Madge's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2]
Etymology
The specific name, madgemintonae (genitive, feminine, singular), is in honor of Madge Alice Shortridge Rutherford Minton (1920–2004), the wife of American herpetologist Sherman A. Minton.[3]
Geographic range
T. madgemintonae is endemic to Pakistan.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Indotyphlops madgemintonae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
- ↑ 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. xi + 511 pp.
- ↑ 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 madgemintonae, pp. 165, 178-179).
Further reading
- 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 madgemintonae, new combination).
- Khan MS. 1999. Two new species and a subspecies of blind snakes of genus Typhlops from Azad Kashmir and Punjab, Pakistan (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 6 (3): 231-240. ("Typhlops madgemintonai [sic]", new species, p. 233).
- Wallach V. 2000. Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. Khan, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Hamadryad 25 (2): 129-143. (Typhlops madgemintonae, corrected name, p. 130).
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