Typhlops marxi

Typhlops marxi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. marxi
Binomial name
Typhlops marxi
Wallach, 1993
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops marxi
    Wallach, 1993
  • Ramphotyphlops marxi
    — Wallach et al., 2007

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

Etymology

The specific name, marxi, is in honor of American herpetologist Hymen Marx.[4]

References

  1. "Ramphotyphlops marxi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 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. (Ramphotyphlops marxi, p. 170).

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