Gerrhopilus hedraeus

Gerrhopilus hedraeus, also known as the Negros Island blind snake or Negros Island worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.[1][2] It is endemic to the Philippines.[1][2]

Gerrhopilus hedraeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Gerrhopilidae
Genus: Gerrhopilus
Species:
G. hedraeus
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus hedraeus
(Savage, 1950)
Synonyms[2]

Typhlops hedraea Savage, 1950
Typhlops hedraeus — McDiarmid et al., 1999[3]
Gerrhopilus carolinehoserae Hoser, 2012

References
  1. Diesmos, A. & Brown, R. 2009. Gerrhopilus hedraeus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T169812A6677259. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169812A6677259.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. Gerrhopilus hedraeus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
  3. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1


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