Typhlops diardii

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iDiard's blindsnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: diardii
Binomial name
Typhlops diardii
Schlegel, 1839

Diard's blindsnake Typhlops diardii is a species of snake.

Distribution:

  • India (Assam; Arunachal Pradesh (Miao - Changlang district, Chimpu - Papum Pare district, Tippi - East Kameng district) [A. Captain, pers. Comm.]), Nepal, Bangladesh,

Myanmar (= Burma) to Indochina S China (Hainan, Yunnan) W Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (Nias, Weh, Sumatra, Banka, Borneo), New Guinea (?)

platyventris: Pakistan

Type locality: "Khasi Hills, Assam" (Gray 1845) Type locality: "banks of Ganges River, Calcutta" (PETERS 1861) Type locality: "near Moulmein, Myanmar (= Burma)" (Stoliczka (1872) Type locality: "Shillong, Khasi Hills, Assam, India" Wall (1908) Type locality: "Upper Assam" Wall (1909)


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  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893 Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp.
  • Khan, M. S. 1998 Notes on Typhlops diardi Schlegel, 1839, with description of a new subspecies (Squamata, Serpentes, Scolecophidia). Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 30 (3): 231-221
  • Schlegel, H. 1839 Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien, nach der Natur oder dem Leben entworfen und mit einem erläuternden Texte begleitet. Arne and Co., Düsseldorf, xiv + 141 pp.
  • Wallach, V. 2000 Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. KHAN, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Hamadryad, 25(2): 129-143