McDowell's blind snake

McDowell's blind snake (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli ) is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.[3][4]

McDowell's blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Gerrhopilidae
Genus: Gerrhopilus
Species:
G. mcdowelli
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus mcdowelli
(Wallach, 1996)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops mcdowelli
    Wallach, 1996
  • Gerrhopilus mcdowelli
    — Vidal et al., 2010

Etymology

The specific name, mcdowelli, is in honor of American herpetologist Samuel Booker McDowell (born 1928).[5]

Geographic range

G. mcdowelli is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[2]

Reproduction

G. mcdowelli is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Tallowin O, Allison A (2015). "Gerrhopilus mcdowelli ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T178354A21650275. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T178354A21650275.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. Species Gerrhopilus mcdowelli at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  4. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  5. 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. (Typhlops mcdowelli, p. 173).

Further reading
  • Vidal, Nicolas; Marin, Julie; Morini, Marina; Donnellan, Steve; Branch, William R.; Thomas, Richard; Vences, Miguel; Wynn, Addison; Cruaud, Corinne; Hedges, S. Blair (2010). "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana". Biology Letters 6: 558–561. (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli, new combination).
  • Wallach V (1996). "Two New Blind Snakes of the Typhlops ater Group from Papua New Guinea". Russian J. Herp. 3 (2): 107–118. (Typhlops mcdowelli, new species).


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