Typhlops porrectus

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Slender Worm Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Typhlopidae Genus: Typhlops Species: T. porrectus
Binomial name
Typhlops porrectus Stoliczka, 1871

Slender Worm Snake Typhlops porrectus is a species of snake. Distribution: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, N Myanmar (= Burma), Sunda region Race ductuliformis: Pakistan

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database

[edit] References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1893 Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp.
• Constable, JOHN D. 1940 Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge (Massachusetts), 103 (2:) 59-160.
• Cox, Merel J.;Nabhitabhata, Jarujin 1997 Geographic Distribution. Typhlops porrectus Herpetological Review 28 (1): 53
• Khan, M. S. 1999 Typhlops ductuliformes a new species of Blind Snakes from Pakistan and a note on T. porrectus Stoliczka, 1871 (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia). Pakistan J. Zool. 31 (4): 385-390.
• Stoliczka,F. 1871 Notes on some Indian and Burmese Ophidians. J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 40: 421-445
• Wall,F. 1913 Some new snakes from the Oriental Region. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 514-516
• Wallach, V. 2000 Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. KHAN, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Hamadryad, 25(2): 129-143