Typhlops malcolmi

Typhlops malcolmi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Subfamily: Asiatyphlopinae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. malcolmi
Binomial name
Typhlops malcolmi
Taylor, 1947
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops malcolmi
    Taylor, 1947
  • Indotyphlops malcolmi
    Hedges et al., 2014

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

Etymology

The specific name, malcolmi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.[4]

Geographic range

T. malcolmi is endemic to Sri Lanka.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Indotyphlops malcolmi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  3. 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.
  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 malcolmi, p. 166).

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