Indotyphlops porrectus

Indotyphlops porrectus, the slender worm snake, is a species of harmless blind snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to South Asia. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.[3]

Indotyphlops porrectus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Indotyphlops
Species:
I. porrectus
Binomial name
Indotyphlops porrectus
(Stoliczka, 1871)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops porrectus
    Stoliczka, 1871
  • Typhlops porrectus
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Typhlops mackinnoni
    Wall, 1910
  • Typhlops venningi
    Wall, 1913
  • Typhlops porrecta
    — Constable, 1949
  • Typhlops porrectus
    — Hahn, 1980[1]
  • Indotyphlops porrectus
    — Hedges et al., 2014[2]

Geographic range

Indotyphlops porrectus is found in Bangladesh, India, northern Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.[1]

The type locality given is "Hurdwár, ... Calcutta, ... foot of the Parisnáth hill (in Western Bengal), ... base of the Rangnu valley below Darjíling, ... and south of Agra" [northern and eastern India].[1]

Description

Indotyphlops porrectus is small and slender. It may attain a total length (including tail) of 28.5 cm (11.2 in), and a diameter of about 0.5 cm (0.20 in). There are 18 scale rows around the body. It is brown or blackish dorsally, and paler ventrally. The snout, chin, and anal region are whitish.[4]

Reproduction

Indotyphlops porrectus is oviparous.[2]

References
  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).
  2. Species Indotyphlops porrectus at The Reptile Database . www.reptle-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops porrectus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
  4. Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Typhlops porrectus, p. 46).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Typhlops porrectus, pp. 19-20).
  • Constable, John Davidson (1949). "Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 103 (2): 59-160. (Typhlops porrecta, p. 112).
  • Cox, Meryl J.; Nabhitabhata, Jarujin (1997). "Geographic Distribution, Typhlops porrectus ". Herpetological Review 28 (1): 53.
  • Khan MS (1999). "Typhlops ductuliformes a new species of blind snakes from Pakistan, with notes on extralimital T. porrectus Stoliczka, 1871 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Pakistan J. Zool. 31 (4): 385-390.
  • Stoliczka F (1871). "Notes on some Indian and Burmese Ophidians". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 40: 421-445 + Plates XXV-XXVI. (Typhlops porrectus, new species, pp. 426-428 + Plate XXV, figures1-4).
  • Wall F (1910). "A New Blind Snake from the Western Himalayas". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 19: 805-806. (Typhlops mackinnoni, new species).
  • Wall F (1913). "Some New Snakes from the Oriental Region". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 514-516. (Typhlops venningi, new species, pp. 515-516 + 3 figures).
  • Wallach V (2000). "Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. KHAN, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Hamadryad 25 (2): 129-143.
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