Biology:Deharveng’s blind snake
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Deharveng’s blind snake | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Subfamily: | Asiatyphlopinae |
Genus: | Cyclotyphlops Bosch & Ineich, 1994 |
Species: | C. deharvengi
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Binomial name | |
Cyclotyphlops deharvengi Bosch & Ineich, 1994[1]
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Deharveng’s blind snake (Cyclotyphlops deharvengi) is a species of blind snake placed in the monotypic genus Cyclotyphlops. It is found in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, deharvengi, is in honor of Louis Deharveng, who is a zoologist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.[3]
Geographic range
C. deharvengi is known only from the type locality, which is "Malawa, between Maros and Bone-Watampon, Selatan Province, southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, at an elevation of about 500 m" (1,640 ft).[1]
See also
- List of typhlopid species and subspecies
- Typhlopidae by common name
- Typhlopidae by taxonomic synonyms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
- ↑ "Cyclotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634396. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ↑ 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. (Cyclotyphlops harvengi, p. 68).
Further reading
- Bosch HAJ in den, Ineich I (1994). "The Typhlopidae of Sulawesi (Indonesia): A Review with Description of a new Genus and a New Species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Journal of Herpetology 28 (2): 206-217. (Cyclotyphlops, new genus; Cyclotyphlops deharvengi, new species).
External links
- Cyclotyphlops deharvengi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 August 2007.
Wikidata ☰ Q2440690 entry