Biology:Cuming's blind snake

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Cuming's blind snake
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Ramphotyphlops
Species:
R. cumingii
Binomial name
Ramphotyphlops cumingii
(Gray, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Onychophis cumingii
    Gray, 1845
  • Onycocephalus cumingii
    — Boettger, 1886
  • Typhlops cumingii
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Typhlops rugosa
    Taylor, 1919
  • Typhlops longicauda
    Taylor, 1919
  • Typhlops dendrophis
    Taylor, 1922
  • Typhlops mindanensis
    Taylor, 1922
  • Typhlina cumingii
    — McDowell, 1974
  • Ramphotyphlops cumingii
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999

Cuming's blind snake (Ramphotyphlops cumingii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to the Philippines .

Etymology

The specific name, cumingii, is in honor of English conchologist and botanist Hugh Cuming.[4]

Geographic range

In the Philippines, R. cumingii is found on Bohol, Marinduque, Mindanao, Negros, Panay, and Polillo.[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. cumingii is forest.[5]

Reproduction

R. cumingii is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Species Ramphotyphlops cumingii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN:1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN:1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. "Ramphotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174339. Retrieved 29 August 2007. 
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ramphotyphlops cumingii, p. 62).
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Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Typhlops cumingii, new combination, p. 51 + Plate III, figures 4a–4c).
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Onychophis cumingii, new species, p. 133).
  • Weinell JL, Hooper E, Leviton AE, Brown RM (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 66 (1): 1–49.


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