Typhlops loveridgei
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- Common names: Loveridge's worm snake.
Typhlops loveridgei is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. It is named after Arthur Loveridge, an American herpetologist. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2]
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[edit] Geographic range
This species is known only from the type specimen, the type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North India," and likely from "Ambala or the Kulu Valley."[1]
[edit] See also
- List of typhlopid species and subspecies.
- Typhlops by common name.
- Typhlops by taxonomic synonyms.
- Typhlopidae by common name.
- Typhlopidae by taxonomic synonyms.
[edit] References
- ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ Typhlops loveridgei (TSN 634654). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 31 August 2007.
[edit] Further reading
- Constable, JD. 1940. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge (Massachusetts), 103 (2:) 59-160.
[edit] External links
- Typhlops loveridgei at the TIGR Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2007.
